WORK BY THE WATERSIDE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2016, 25 March 1914, Page 8

WORK BY THE WATERSIDE.

• .. ■ (To tio Editor.) Sir,*-I have wafted- for » couple of weeks for some omriviih an abler poll and better versed in the ftiutters ctfn-cfi-rnuig tli-o Into sttipid strfe to <>ksllenfte • tto . stateniewtß offered bj- Si-. Fletehor and the- iabciuf .foreman ai ilie iato- meeting of thfe Harbaiji? .J3qa.rdi Mr..Slcunjo in gtaturg thai ho ahrapS eimeavoisred to conserve tho bouri'* best interests no dembt toW fho't'r.Ht.h OS tor as he- .was persbnall.jr ronc&rijed, but Ins statonieirt that the filter coiitliions cfarfng .ttio strike rtnd sjneo have ' east the boai'd several ■■tlioitsaftds tes.train wages was.so dearlA' a plea fo.r the fcS-stnk!?rs thai i.t.eouicV notte mhniiderstebd. At tihe. safiio. ■ tiftjo siicli Btateni.(?Jrt caniiot-,be- su|)porteci hy-fcjig facts.' I hold ; that w)ra:t(!ver ojctr.a- cost has been entailed .on .the boatd and ethep em|lay.c-rs was directly due tio ihe' strikers and their ■S-up.p.arters, a ; ii.d sQ-i far tione of ■ t]i<j .Q.thel> - etoploysrs ijay.e , openly grtmbted; over any 'iftei-eascd ■cost, .-. . . ■

Tiro (jtiestioii of the casual labour will again come-, before the Ward at its ivej.t meeting, "arid it .is only fair.to ikosij. who helped to Open the. port t;hd.t their ea.se and interests should Ix>. Jatdy .eorisMeredv I. -svjll. readily ..adhns Jljstt in so.hi.o classes. ,of iio wwk tlie ' fien:er.at : run of i : lio.new hatids cannot c.tiiiip.ete with the old iiHil ejipefkneect liahds, ■ not frdiii want of will or cnorßy, but merely from want of .experience mi tiro StipuoatKru. of meilio.ds gfliiictl- only by years of appikstjfm'. Wlipri}- are" tli'p ■forcinon who lveiip: so profuso in their (jj-aiso of the work dqiie by *lie ArWtj*. tionists iij tljs earibr S.iiiig.es ; of tlio Strike. rie)i.t ,iip to tho- time w'lwn tjio. Strike Collapsed, vide the -freftHsnt : para-■ graphs that appen'red ill .■.fho local pa.pers? . . ' . '. ■ Mr. also made refei«noo to: tlio loss of toivnafec,- but, suteli's in all fairness, lie canndt .Wanrd tW;A*bitM-- : tiolwH.B for that shortage aiy moi-fttliajj: that they .werp to 'Manic for "the ■ tibii in the- 'sljfltis which tp a. largo ex.-' tftiit wae the eausa. of ilw extra cost for labmjr thiring tiio liionMiii qf .Nq-J vomte MUJ-pcCetaher. I that Mr. CVleniiio lias .mt,ssed tluj lijaitt pojni. : and the board and employers must bo careful not to fall into the sanio error, and th-ib is thai Mi thp sfrfW. nofc taket .place \vhe« it- did tliQ couiitry' wmild Jiavo lieeft .facect >:vi;ih a, jijue'h greater 'one 4 strifav itefc wonld liivo. gotta far' to .paEal.vse tho whole tfaio o.f the comitri' ffas sn'snged. td. take : ■placo iij Jaimaty o.r Pcb.fuar.v of'.'i'bjs" , pat, and it cftil : be clearly seen, takiiig ;ato actoMt what has traiiejA-cd ift t'ho Australian ports, that -therb. was a. t*ipr eamlmmtkii aiming to wQ tho $$ flag to the mast and kcp» it. thdr-Q. Had. Euch. gitined tl.ifi :day tl'jerrfe is plenty of evkfeueo ttet.ivhaii rate's, wdiild have tea ihetcasod at- least 23 par -coijt. j and very nrtseli .mow hai'assiftg *oii.ditions imposed on i»H ciaSs.es ol : cmpleyors. Mr. Glwiiiiio jfta'y feOlythat tuts . increased eesfe wwilct Itiivb been passwi on to a goiwrally nntfcttt public, lint tin? .patioiieorf tlu€'.pijhlfo: (■aw he wearied snt—].i«nc« tho ■miiied and sucjessftil .cffd.rts te' wiisii tlie strrfees to Nmv Zealand hi 1890 ant! 1013. Mr. (.iteiinio mates .tnotlinr Sttic went, re broakages, to ivhitrTi I must tiiko osccpiion., PcrsQivrtliy' J liavo H'drked m i.icarly'all tiro slieds siiico tlio eoMjinoiicei»e»| of the strikes an-3 1 Jmru JWt seen Miy breateges that W-o cost' tbe board oho sMlling.— J oiy cte.