UNIONS DISCUSS STRIKE.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14823, 14 November 1913, Page 10

UNIONS DISCUSS STRIKE.

A BEFr OF RESOLUTIONS.

(PBXSS ASSOCIATION- lELSGRAK.) CKLiVND ' Member 13. dSdedT kcrs ' and Painters' Unions Sost^ solid in favour of held D tht Of - the Drlvcrs ' tfnion w «s in nttnnV ° mw -' 6ra members being nut in,? Several motions put and as foUows:— nnt i • m the evont of tho tronblb not being b w. , } Imon can a me^}ing X^ undertr S Ac? f - CADCCIIinS registratiOn "That tbo railway men l>o asked to mako common cause, and that tho branches of the Federation be asked to assist m this direction." t *t at ,, owi "g to tho hostile attitudo w the Mayor the drivers of the CSty Council's refuse carte bo called out." •lliat members of the Union bo asked not to call out -when in the vicinity of "special" constables or free labourers' houses. , ' Although the Furniture Union has officially resolved that tho strike shall continue, and that its ranks aro "solid," there is much discontent among members. Thero is provision in tho rules for the taking of a secret ballot, but no secret.ballot was taken m connexion with a resolution to strike. Members of thermion state that had such a ballot been takon there would have been a majority in favour of the immediate resumption of work. As it is, tho tactics adopted by some of the prominent members of tho union who are in favour of a strike have made the majority of the members afraid to express anti-etriko sentiments.

The authorities report that 27 members of the old watorsidcrs' union havo now been enrolled in tho new union, and that to-day applications from at least 50 moro had to be declined, along with applications from a largo number of outside workers, owing to there being no work avaifable. Tho Painters' Union has officially denied the statement that painters -who havo been on strike are returning to work to-day. One.of tho principal master painters in tho city stated that 20 out of 30 men who.had obeyed the strike mandate had returned to eniDlo-tfuont. Painters wero to be observed at work to-day in all parts 'of tho city and suburbs. N