BLACKBALL STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 174, 16 April 1908, Page 7

BLACKBALL STRIKE.

PROPOSED TEST CASE. "QUESTION OF AIDING AND ABETTINC. > RESOLUTIONS BY THE EMLPOYERS' ; ASSOCIATION. [BY TELEGRAM!.—SrKCIAL CORRESPONDENT.] •./ -V'• •:'• ■ Greymouth, April 15. No movement of note-, has taken placo at Blackball sinco ! Saturday; last., <■ ' There ■ is. a persistent rumour afloat that the trouble ..will end as soon as tho (Easter ooriforonco of the New Zealand, labour'unions :;is ~v . . (BY TELEGRAPH.—rREBS ASSOCIATION.) ;• '••• . Croymoutli, April 15. ■ ; ' Thero are: no /fresh ' developments in oonnectioh'with the strike: at Blackball. ■ Tho Tyneside Miners' Union meet on Friday, when it is oxpectcd . tlioy will agree to oontinuo to support tho strikers. , Dunetiin, April 15. A'' spooial ; mooting : of -, tho Employers' Association was held to-day to ooii3ider the Government's action in connection with tho •' Blackballs striko, and- also the - question of qiding and abetting " dealt.with; in, Mr. Ekorrett's opinion 'of. Section-14 of the,Fac-tories'Act-Amendment Act, 1907. Tho following resolutions wero carried:— That this, meeting of Otago: employ era . . expresses its disappointment-at tho turn • • things, hpvo taken in connection with tho " Blackball' strike, - nnd very much regrets tho Government's continued inactivity to onforco the Act. Tho moeting considers that, in tho best interests of tho , community as a wholo, it should be mi-, mediately amended, and made enforceable against all parties or expunged from tho .'"'Statute books of tho Dominion alto- , get her. ' ■ ■ : "That, as tho Government refuse to take prompt action agaic.-t thoso unions which-have boon guilty of aiding and ' abetting the strike m passing resolutions of sympathy and: donating money to . carry 'on tho strike, - tho New . Zealand Employers'Federation'be asked to. institute proceedings against one or two of: tho principals, so that a testicase may be - . made, and the position of tho employers ' ascertained. , 1 ■ •1■ ; That,. thip: meeting ~is strongly -i.of opinion that radical amendments must, bo made to tho Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act if it is to bo of any last-' • ingTbonefit to tho oommunity, and that tho local Federation bo appointed to draw :. up necessary amendments to be approved - by a general meeting, and: forwarded to , tho Federation for, submission to cm- ... ployers throughout tho Dominion;