SYMPATHISERS WITH THE STRIKERS
'LABOUR UNION RESOLUTIONS, i Westport, April 21. U the ballot taken by the Westport General Labourers' Union it was decided by 98 votes to 56 to support the following .resolution:— "That we .members of General labourers' Union express our'entire and whole-hearted sympathy with ancr approval of the coal miners' unions in the strike against the Conscription Act. We desire to -enter an emphatic protest against the Act, and call on the Government to immediately repeal the same, arid express sincere regret that the Government; has shown so little consideration for the importance or national unity in that it ever turned a deaf ear to organised labour's repeated protests against the Act,'- and still further accentuated the trouble by the uncalled-for severity of its dictatorship. We sincerely hope that the Government will endeavour to alleviate the unrest and prevent the further spread of'industrial upheaval by immediately repealing the Act." 1 Waihi, April 21. At a meeting of the Waihi Miners' Union last night, the following resolution was carried:—"That this meeting passes a vote of sympathy with the coal miners of New Zealand."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3060, 23 April 1917, Page 6
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