THE BOYCOTTED FIRM

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2818, 5 August 1890, Page 2

THE BOYCOTTED FIRM

[nv ti:lki:kai'|[—l'UKS.S association. 1 Chuihl'i'iiukcu, La-it Xight. Tun fallowing lelegmin has been sent to the Railway Commissioners : —" lie Whitcombe unil Tombs dilli::ulty. Instructions have been icceived from the M.uitimc Council to boycott all goods. The Riilway Croon has dccided to comply strictly with the instructions and if the railway men are suspended t hey must call hands out an 1 the port of Lyttelton will be practically blocked by the Council until the suspended men are reinstated. Our action is imperative as this case is a test one and we are backed bv "ther linns>. Can you instruct Messrs Whiteombe and Tombs that the Railway Department is not responsible) through civil commotion. —H. •!. Edwards, Ceneral Secretary Amalgamated Society Railway Servants," Wiai.tNOTON, L ist Xight.

The Railway Commissioners havedeeided to reply to the telegram from the Railway Servants' Society to the elfejt that being public can iers they are not in a position to instruct theit servants to refrain from handling any goods belonging to Messrs Whitecombe and Tombs which niiyba consigned to them for tans nis-ion by rail and in the event of thejt uhv y Servants' A-soci ilion withdrawing any of the railway ollieials from their work those who may lea\e will do so at th-ur own risk, and should any inconvenii nee tie occasioned t > the railway bv tralHc being stopped or lo th>< trade of the Port of Lyttelt-m by it being impeded by the threatened action of the Incentive, the responsibility will devolve upon the Association and not upon the 11 liiway Commissioners. It is st ited that the linn of .lones and Ash down, tailors, who refus.'.d to sign the rules of the Tailoresscs Union are t.o be boycotted. Dunhiiin, Last Night. The Maritime Council are conuertin? steps to close all trade at Lyttelton, pending the settlement of the present dispute with Whiteoinbe and Tombs.