TIMBER MILLERS' POSITION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 278, 21 November 1913, Page 6

TIMBER MILLERS' POSITION.

In explanation of resuming work, the peculiar position of the Auckland timber mil!* was stated by the head of one linn. li>; s;ii-l that the mills in Auckland were the only ones in the Dominion that h.\<l stopped work .hi account of 11,0 strike. "It in very hard on us,"' he. remarked, " a.< only this week kauri boards from Wkangaivi have hern landed on t-h- Auckland whuri. 'Jl.e millri in the South Aucklaml Timber Association are wurkinjr, and can dflirer t; in I >•• r liy train at all the stations along the line/righi d.)\vn ;., Aiu-kland. The mills north nf Auckland arc also work-

I Ing. mc Taitpo Totara Company has 'its mills going at Putararu and Moki. 'The Kauri Timber Company's Mills at Auckland had to shut down. Vet they can work at Wairoa and Mercury Hay. and supply timber tv places along the coast. !t" the mills at Tauranga had not been destroyed by fire, they also could have gone on working. The Parker-Lamb Company, while shut down in Auckland, can work ite mill at Mamakn. and the Rimu Timber Company has been steadily at work at Rotorua al! the time. This state of affairs just makes Auckland the laughing slock of the Dominion, instead of the envy, as it was before the strike started, and by their action in going out, the men have just fouled their own nest."

THE TOTALS. The following list indicates ;he minit.pr of nip:i who went b.ick and the number usually pwployed at tlit various mille in Auckland: —

THE UNION'S ESTIMATE. The Auckland Timber Mills Union, in rin official statement regarding th: 1 resumption of work at the various mills. : estimates ihr> number of moinbor- of their union who have bcpn reportP'l ■Iβ I ooutivt! explains that it enn -.pp-ik only ami not for tlio numerous workers who were not unionists, nriil who wrro enL'asfil at the different mills. Tim con-clii-i.m ir arrives .-it i< lhat, of the 350 or s" nirmljcrs of the union in the mill* atToric! hy Iho srT.pni! strike fifty ' woul.l hi. : an ont'i.lc csthna.ti- of ihp |act»:il i;;'nil.t>iM t.f tii" union who r«- ---; tunic Ito work thi; mornin};. Thi- num'ln r i.-H-luilp-i ten of th? fmirtorii monilier? ■of (he union :it the J'nrkpr-ljnmh mill. i tlii'pp '.if thp Leyland-O'Brien mil!, ami ! n-ii ill thp Kauri (ti/s Mil. T'i.- 111:111----i'iT--ilo not si'Piu to bo at .".II ii r , .-i-tl'lit I Ptuplnvpp* bark ,;t their olil occupation. ; Liv tliey are submitted as an offit-ral sui count of thi> posilion as it iiffpct? the Tirnhcrworkers' Union.

Retr.rnerl. Kauri Timber Co 100 Park.T-L.imb 77 Loyland-O'Brien "in I), liuldii' ami Son ■">•"> Cashmo: h l.irre ~'\ '••:..■■.Iμ::- ~.i Sawmill Co... » Pr.-mior .l..:uery Co 5S Baginll Brii« 20 \V. Caspy 1!' |[en.!f.-*oii and Pollard . . r.n A''.'-.l in ! ninui Timber reu ri Staff, oof) sn 1:iii I'll) :.n •jii ■_M .")0 i o. 7 VT. Taklp and Co 3 A. McC'oll n Royal O:ik Co 0 Bond Brnr 10 1(1 12 20 1-2 10