DUNEDIN WATERSIDE WORKERS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15772, 13 December 1916, Page 3

DUNEDIN WATERSIDE WORKERS.

| STOP AVOIMv ON ADMIRALTY SHIP. i | (SPECIAL TO "THE PRESS.") i .. TIUNEDIN, December J2. I . water'-ic'e workers .stopped work j yesterday morning "jwinj; to rain, and ; declined to rosunm in the afternoon \ when the rro.it her cleared. They derided not to recommence work till the following morning (Tuesday). The taptain of the Araluen made a personal appeal to the men. He told them that three, hours would clear his vessel, that she was- running under the Admiralty, and was first and last working in tlio interests of the Empire, and that she was urgently wanted in Australia for Admit altv purpose--. The men, however, would not work, and the trimmen-, who were pi;rung in coal. wero Inter on al.so called off the Araluen. The secretary of the I'mon emphatically denied that the men's action » protect ajraiutt the arrest of Robert Scrapie. j At the present time waterside workers are very scarce on the Dunedin wharves (says yesterday's "Otago Daily Times"), and the men there are 6aid to bo earning good wages. Many of the men who -were waterside workers in Bnnedin are now in the firing line, and it was only the other day that one of the most prominent members of their union laid dow n his life for his country. In the face of this, the decision of the Dunedin union members not to work the Aralnen. at any rate, is rather hard to comprehend (adds the ''Times").' Per- ! haps they do not know that it is wet in j the trenches. I