NO SYMPATHY WITH THE FEDERATION.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14822, 13 November 1913, Page 10

NO SYMPATHY WITH THE FEDERATION.

THE FEELLNG IN TARANAKI.

(SI'ECIAL TO "THE PRESS."* NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. 12. Various rumours have been current that some of the trades unions were expected to join tho striko. Enquiry, however, has elicited the fact that most of these unions are under the Arbitration Act, and have no timo for the Red Feds. A telegram was received yesterday by the employees of the Egmont Boot Factory ajking what their attitude was regarding the strike. The secretary of their union stated that they would have nothing to do with the Federation. The Taranaki branch of the Wellington Furniture-makers' Union has received instructions to havo nothing to do with the strike. The men are perfectly satisfied with tho award which they recently obtained. . % It is reported that an agitator has been endeavouring to persuado tho casual employees in the New Plymouth railway, goods sheds to come out on strike, hut so far his guilo has been without avail.

Feeling has been running high lately between some Now Plymouth watersiders who are on strike, and a few of the men who have been engaged as free labourers. It has already produced two fights, in which a striker and' a man who ha*-? been volubly sympathetic with the strikers were both punished fairly heavily.