BLACKBALL STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 7

BLACKBALL STRIKE.

. r position unchanged. SPEECH BY MR. PRITCHARD. ORGANISATION 'AND FEDERATION NEEDED. '(81, lELEGBAFH—SPECIAL CORBESPONDENT.fi Crcymouth, April 2.Matters in connection with the strike ro> main quiet. . An important meeting, of the Union wilt bo held to-morrow. ; . , , .Mr. H. M. who..has, taken such an octree part in connection .with the£ 'strike, left for Wellington by tho s.s; A hura.,on Tuesday night. -. , Dur.edin, 'April 2.

Mr. D. K.- Pritcliardj . speaking at Groen!j Island; last'night, said they had been told! .. that .Justice Sim, had put the'only in-' terpretation possible on the' Act. . If that'- - were.so,,workers should realise the useless-V • j jiess of their, unions.' Thoy, wanted orgariisa- . , tion and federation of, the- unions'. ; of workers, and they could , thon'get capital i in 1 their clutch and squeozo it right out. He'■ had been told by the Press that lie had no' ' right to criticise Mr. Sim,' but if . he was'| wrong the. speaker claimed, tho right to chal-i i lenge 'him and criticise him. -Ha was going ' to criticise Judgo Sim to the beßt of his in- >■ tellectual; ability, for;lie;:did not see why lie shouldn't. \ The speaker went on to pointi .■•'■■■ out , a number of anomalies in the Statute ( Book, saying that the only remedy for , these i, i was' 1 organised Trades Unionism, and th« 1 sending of their representatives to Paflia-i mont, riot sending figureheads. Hej then roi '. ferred to/the Uppor Hbuse, saying jthat 1 , one 1 : : of.,the • latter was very prominently before 1 , ;theirieyes at' present; What had they dono for labour? They were thereto support,that; Government—Govornmont figureheads, , no-f tiling less. .ij'i..]'"" '• .. ' - ' .•" '