AFTER THE STRIKE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 34, 17 March 1914, Page 8 (Supplement)

AFTER THE STRIKE.

UNIONS NOT PROSECUTED. Press Association. "WELLINGTON, March 17. A deputation, - representing the citizens' committee which acted during the strike, waited on the_ Minister of Justice yesterday to draw attention to/the fact that a number of unions which went on strike recently, in defiance of the Arbitration Act and in sympathy with the watersiders and others, had not been prosecuted. It was pointed out that there were eighteen, 'such unions in New Zealand, and the deputation urged that the law ought to be put in action against them. , • The Minister said that the duty of instituting proceedings under the Arbitration Act did not rest with his Department, but with the Labour Department, and he undertook to inform the Minister of Labour of what the deputation had represented.