WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 184, 6 August 1890, Page 2

WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS.

INTENDED LIBEL ACTION.

THE RAILWAY EMPLOYEES,

(by telegraph, —press association. )

ChristcH-Rch, this day,

There is little fresh about the Whitcombe (Mid Totubs difficulty. Mr Whitcombe was tt passenger per Wairarapa, which left for Dunedin yesterday afternoon. It is understood that the firm are to bring an action for £5000 damages against Anthony Sellers and Co., printers of the " Trade and Labour Chronicle," for libel. At a private meeting convened in the Chamber of Commerce room nothing was done on account of the small attendance. The meeting, it was understood, was. to sat on foot a Union ot capitalists and employers of labour in Christchurch.

A large meeting of the Canterbury Branch of the Railway Employees' Society unanimously pledged themselves to faithfully tarry out the instructions of the executive in regard to Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs "Whenever called upon, and to refuse to handle the goods of the firm if necessary. Several speeches were delivered in favour Of the Association offering arbitration, and exhausting aU pacific mean? of settling the difficulty before resorting to extreme measures of holding out to the last extiemity. Should the matter result in a contest, it was decided to ask the executive of the Maritime Council to come to Christchurch.