DUNEDIN QUITE SANE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 71, 20 September 1912, Page 8

DUNEDIN QUITE SANE

(Bt MLEGBAPfI— SMftfAfc TO TflS POST.) DUNEDIN, This Day. The general feeling in this city is that should a national strike of workers be called Labour will not respond to the call in Otago. So far as the coal miners are concerned, it is pointed out that when this danger threatened in the middle of winter and the demand for fuel is great, it was tided over, a factor in the miners' Belling their ammunition to the enemy being the admittedly weak financial condition of the Miners' Union. The main menace lies in the transport workers. As far as the Dunedrn waterside workers are concerned they are hardly in a position to take decisive action; Tho question as to their secession from the Federation of Labour is still under consideration, but in any case they are disinclined !to throw in their lot with the Waihi strikers, whose dispute, they say, might have been adjusted long ago if there had been less stubbornness and more tact among the union officials. Regarding other workers, skilled and unskilled, viewed entirely from a local standpoint, it can be said that Dunedin is outside the Waihi vortex. Unionists here 'are not excited; they seem to be viewing the strike judicially, and forming individual opinions about it, and those individual opinions are mostly in favour of letting business go on as it is. It may betaken as a fact that so far the Dunedin unions have not been called on to do anything special. As one leading unionist put it : "Dnnedin seems to be ijiiite sane."