MR. YOUNG ASKED TO RESIGN

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1940, 24 December 1913, Page 6

MR. YOUNG ASKED TO RESIGN

BY THE SEAMEN,

•MOTION OF. NO-CONFIDENCE.

'At a'meeting which was attended by •197 seamen, and which was held in the .Vivian Street Skating Rink yesterday afternoon, Mr. V. T. Ypung, secretary of--tlio-Wellington branch of tho Seamen's Union, was asked to resign his position, and a motion of "no confidence" in/him was also carried. Mr. J. Dailly'presided, and Mr. D. Smith was appointed secretary^' The meeting was called for tho purpose of considoringj'Mr. Young's action jn 'regard to tho recent striko. Mr. Young himself was :not present, the reason being that ho liad to attend a meeting of the executive of tho Federation of Labour, which had been called to consider his resignation from tho position of president of that body. From a report of tho proceedings given to a Douinion reporter by the secretary of the meeting, it was ascertained that Mr. Young cam© in for a considerable amount of adverse criticism. It was stated that the secretary of the union had taken it upon himself to go round tho wharves and interview seamen with tho apparent intention of preventing tho meeting from being held. Two resolutions wore put ■ to the meeting, and it is reported that they were' carried linrmimonsly. Tho resolutions 'P'ore as follow:—

"fl) That the action of Mr. W. T. Young and his committee in going round vessels and declaring that there was jio meeting of seamen to bo held to-day bo condemned by those present." This was moved by Mr. Jones and (Seconded by Mr. Lyons. "(2) That this meeting of seamen passes a motion of no confidence in Mr. Young, secretary of tho Wellington branch of the Seamen's Union, and that ho bo asked to resign his position." The second resolution was moved by "Mr. D. Wishart and seconded by Mr. (T\ Ricketts.