GENERAL LABOURERS' DISPUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 100, 28 April 1913, Page 6

GENERAL LABOURERS' DISPUTE.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The general labounors' dispute, between the Union and employers (including local bodies) again came before the Conciliation Council to-day. In the course of a. lengthy discussion, the union .scerotary, Mr. Rcardon, stated that an agreement hud been arrived yit \viLli the Wellington City Corporation, ami it only remained 'for it to be endorsed by the union. • Mr. Fergtison (Wellington Gas Company) sought to ob-taiu details of the arrangement, but Mr. Reardon was not inclined to disclose them. The employers' representatives raised the point that their dntßDests 1 might be prejudierally affected by any agreement entered into privaiely, and of which -they had no cognisance. After consultation I/a Committee, Mr. Ihvtloy (Commissioner) announced that the general feeling- was that local bodies should not lie struck out of the list of •the paTtJps coiu-er/ned. The Council Hien went into nuromittee to discuss the points at vsaue. In addition to the general bustle and stir on the water-front incidental upon the arrival of 11.M.5. New Zenland. tlie present week will adso bp ii very busy one amongsit the mercantile whipping. Wvhen :the butt.lpsih.ip arrives tn-inorfow nftoei'noon, practically the whole of the whstrfosTc nccommodiition will be taken up by Britfeli nnd foreign-owned steamers representative of varied interest?. Theve is a steamer now in port from Ray/tern Canada, with merchandise from Britain's other Dominion, several Home ■fcrwrfters, n steamer under the Trench flag from New Tork, inter-polonb:! paf.setig.ir and cargo-carrierSj and a host of c^-'al