UNIONS ON STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 276, 19 November 1913, Page 7

UNIONS ON STRIKE.

THE CENTHAt COI"-_-_TTEE EXPLAINS. The Central Committee has made a statement in connection with the number of unions on strike, in which they make it clear that representatives sit on the committee from the waterside workers, the drivers, the tramwaymen. the seamen, the engine drivers, carpenters, timber workers, furniture workers, bricklayers, painters, shipwrights, tinsmiths, hotel and restaurant workers, brewery employees;, and general labourers. This, they point out. is sufficient evidence ai to the unanimous feeling of sympathy that unionists in Auckland feel towards the strike. So far as the outside centres are concerned, the central committee has received messages to-day from Lyttelton I where the men are determined), from Awaroa (where the strike, it is announced, is still spreading), and from Westport and Huntly (where the men were as solid for the cause of the strikers as they had ever been. The reports of the delegates to the strike committee from the unions already referred to as being represented on that body are all of a character that seem to indicate determination to go through with the strike until the end. The Exhibition workers, tile Harbour lioard employees, and the freezing chamber employees are also represented ou the strike committee. The committee announces that only between 30 and 35 Harbour Board employees have been known to return to work out of a total number of between 300 and 400, and it is stated on behalf of the Exhibition workers that few men other than those employed on "Wonderland" have returned. It is further state rthat 30 former workers took their tool kits away to-day. and that the great majority of the original employees had determined not to go back until the trouble was settled. The engine drivers still report only one member at work against the wishes nf the union, and the bricklayers are in the same position. The seamen have none of their members at work, and they confidently assert that no steps could possibly be taken, as alleged, towards establishing a new union, unless the Registrar had informed them of the proposal.