AT A STANDSTILL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 25, 31 January 1911, Page 2

AT A STANDSTILL.

MEN AT OTIRA TUNNEL KNOCK OFF WORK. SITUATION UNDER DISCUSSION. fB7 TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, 30th January. The Otira correspondent of the Press telegraphed at 5 o'clock this afternoon as follows:— "The four o'clock shift refused to go into the tunnel this afternoon. It seems that, at a meeting of the local union last night, a deputation was appointed to wait upon Mr. M'Lean tc discuss some matters pertaining to the work. One of the deputation was a Mr. Armstrong, who is not employed by Mr. M'Lean, and the latter refused to disl cuss, matters with any people who were not his employees. At 4 o'clock the men — some forty-eight of them— took their carbide and apparently prepared to go to work, but instead they went to the tunnel hall to a meeting, where Mr. M'Lean met them, and repeated what he had already told them. At present the work at the tunnel is at a standstill, and the men are discussing the situation.