AFTERMATH OF THE STRIKE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14898, 11 February 1914, Page 9

AFTERMATH OF THE STRIKE.

DUXEDIN HARBOUR BOAEI> EMPLOYEES. (tuxss association ttucobau.) IH7XEDIX, February 10. A deputation consisting of Messrs Steve Boreham, McLean, McAllan, and Montgomery, waited on the Ota go Harbour Board this afternoon to ask tho Board to consider the question of reinstating five men who had left tho Board.; 6ervire during the strike period rather than carry oat the instruction to erect barricades on the wharves. All the members of the deputation addressed the Board at length on different aspects of tho case. They said that the men who were- dismissed were recognised as efficient workmen, and had been in the Board's service for tnanv years. When they were ordered to put up the barricades, they asked for police protection, which was refused them. They then refused to do the work, presumably on the ground that They ra™ a j?eritn>s ris-1; nt bodily injury, and that it was unfair, from other aspects, for the Board to request them to do euch work ' t was also pointed out that tho Board nas doing a wrong thing in having eighteen or twenty non-unionists in its employ at the present time, when there were unionists available for employment. Finally they asked that tho. dismissed men should bo reinstated at the earliest opportunity. In the course of a. brief discussion between the Board members, which followed Mr Scolinr. said there had boon a "black list" in circulation on tho waterfront sincp tho btriko. and what was going on was anything but a credit to the community. The matter was finally referred tor rpyvort to a oommitteo consisting of Messrs Bullock. Belchor, Loudon, and the chairman (Mr Moller).