THIS DAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3629, 3 October 1890, Page 3

THIS DAY.

'[Br Teleoratii.J .The Conference resumod this Morning, when Mr Saudford, of tlio Canterbury Trades " and Labor Council,, in thecourseof-a .lengthy speeoh, condemned tlio Union Com. puny, which had deliberately asso- !■' eiated themselves with a combination i in Australia whoso avowed intention (J|r' was to crush Unionists, He thought tho only solution of ' the labor difficulty was to federate so as to i form a Council of two" .classes, who could meet and arrive at a settlement of any disprtes arising.Mr Mac Lean defended the action of the Shipowners Association of Australia and said they had not lifted their finger till tlioy wero attaokod. He had everything to say in favor of Unionism, but m the • prosont instance the Unions had ridden the high horse and gone too far. He declared since the striko f commenced the Company were getting the flower of tho young men of New Zealand into their boats. Many of the officers, cooks, and stewards, ' were returning to the Company, and ho challenged Mr Millar to tako tho embargo off the seamen and firemen when most of them would bo only too glad to got back to the Company, Ho thought the great fault in con- r nootion with tho present trouble lay .• in the fact that the Union Company had not hcen brought faco to faco *- N with tho diflbulty. boforo pxtteme measures ;were resorted to, as some means might liavo been adopted to avoid a striko, , At 12 o'clock tho Conference adjourned till 2,80,