CAREYING TRADE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1913, Page 8

CAREY ING TRADE

EMPLOYERS AND MEN TO MEET Whether the drivers want to or not it iseemsthat unless an improvement in the situation takes place the drivers or many of them -will be out of work. Some of them who endeavoured to get their loads through the Harbour Board gates this morning had quite i sufficient provocation for throwing the reins on their horses' backs and knocking off work. "Scab" and other and even worse epithets were used to carters who demurred at all at the high-handed action of the men in possession, of the gates, and it was not until they realised that single-handed they could do nothing that the drivers left the gates. One man who shouted to the police demanding a free passage- was the subject of particular attention, from the rowdy element. The representatives of local carrying firms met in, the forenoon and discussed the situation, and finally decided to meet union representatives this evening to consider what is next to bedone under the circumstances. Suspension of work

firms pretty severely if it continues. There are horses to be fed, even if there will be but few or no men to be paid. The position confronting the Drivers' Union i 6 most awkward for that body, which, even against its will, may be drawn into and will certainly be affected by the dispute in which it is not materially concerned, however much or however little it« members may sympathise with the watersidere.