BRICKLAYERS' BUCKBALL

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 127, 29 May 1914, Page 2

BRICKLAYERS' BUCKBALL

FAILS IN ITS OBJECT. FTLL STAFF EMI'I/TCED.

The action on th" part of the Brirkla>er-' I "ion in blackballing the new! (Jramniar School contract, -.vhich is be- | ing ••noted at a cost <>! £31.000. haj | fail'tl in its object, presuming such to j li.n- I-. n an nli'-mpl t>i stop work on Ih" job It will (v> remembered that i ihre.- u,*'k- .Lgo a dozen bricklayers em-pl'-'.eil --n the n-'w building -ifAvned twiN Wiii-.- t1,.. contractor. Mr. W. }'.., slntchirison, had jn his employ a man j who ha.) been hlackliMerl nt the time of I in- recent strike. Th.. r.-a-on for the blankha.ll was that I ie man concerned ira t.. have Kork.-l -Inrino: strike tinu- f.n another l.la-klialted job, and that he hud refu-.-d Iμ .ca.se work when ask'il to do so by ..ffieiaN of the lirie.ld.ty.-rs In.on. Tlip itorr of the man omieemed i- a diftiuct deniaL llp declares that lie did not work at nil dnring stnk- tim» as a. bricklayer. but only as a nwmher of the ria-su-r.-rs , I nion. "which union was not on strike-, iml furthermore, he states tliat. h-> was not on a- blarJvballed job atOiat-or any other period. l!n- l.it'Mt development In the ma.t- --- 1.,r ' h !.lmt d-n'it- the blackball ■work on ISmJ turv ibuildinj; proveeds niPiTfly erwinph. TwrJve men are now employe ;h' brW&Uyers—eqiml to the nimil.er w+w> tkwncvl tools— two more join on Morula J. a-nd tbrco arrive ir./m tV Koirlli rm W<"dnn«ltty. These men have a rriHJion bricks to kiy, -jirl are ii.v.irre.l of ■-■ons-tiinl wort for llin T).-\t li I" has hvrn firrfher staled : tint, work 5s so slwl: in the South that (is many more men as are -wanted <-jti be «=enf ■ 'vlAuekJarxl "withoofc delay.