SEAMEN AND THE STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 8

SEAMEN AND THE STRIKE.

i LEADERS AT VARIANCE. (By Telegraph. — rrcsa Association.) WELLIXCTO.V. ihift day. A teler.Ta.ni from Dunedin last week j 6t3.t» Tiiu. -The executive of the (Seaj men's L'nion in Wellington wants Mr. Belcher to >i.iy and control the a.irairs of the union there, but the Ounedin men wajit him to return to Dunedm -.is soon jas -possible."' I Mr. D. Donovan (president of the Seamen's islaj.es tliat t.his hai= been In-ough-t under hits rwtice. and he wishes to contradict it emphatically so lar :i.-> ; it. relates to the feeling of .the executive, i'lhe members of the executive, he say--, J are quite as eapa/nle as Mr. Beichtrof I c-ontroHinjr the union's affair*. On the j day of Mr. Young'e arrest Mr. KehrheT aekpd if there was anything- lie could do in Wellington. Mr. Dorrovsn replied that , there was not. and if hp wanted to d.> 1 anything he had better return to his I branch in Dunedin. "While Mr. Belcher j was in Wellington." tuid ,Mr. Donovan, J "he neve, at any -time fame to the offices ;of the Seamen's X"iy>an. nor did he r'>J quest any of the members to see him. lAt a meeting of the ex.*r;,j: !ve ] moved ; v motion of no-cajn tide nee in him as an j .'xei.utivc officer, and i; was carried I unanimously. He is. not the general j secretary of the union, hut only «ecrejtary o: the Dtinedin bra-nch. Mr Young ,is general eccrp±ary. and on bin arrest I Mr. ."-mithyman (af=Biista.nt secretary) I was a-ppointed to curry on the work "in I bis absence."