THE STRIKE.
The decision of the conferences of watersiders and seamen in Wellington are being awaTEed with considerable anxiety throughout the country, Evidence is not wanting that a large number of the strikers are tired of the whole business, and are anxious to be given an opportunity of getting back to any kind of work before Christinas. Particularly is this the case in respect to the seamen, who are holding mass meetings to-day to determine whether they will accept the conditions laid down by the shipowners. It is not improbable that if the seamen decide to return to work —and aU the indications point in that direction—the leaders of the watersiders will accept the alternative and call the strike off. The position has now been reached when all hope of a settlement on the lines dictated by the Federation of Labour must be abandoned, and the men must select between seeking work wherever they can get it and humiliating themselves by subsisting upon the charity of those who can ill-afford to extend it.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 December 1913, Page 4
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173THE STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 December 1913, Page 4
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