WATERSIDE TALLY CLERKS TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1914, Page 10

WATERSIDE TALLY CLERKS TO THE EDITOR.

Sir.— l trttet you will allow mo sjwcp ii your columns to t , contradict "Interested." (1) He says:— "A prees item informal ■il'' and. sundry that a amou was ocifig formed and that the .said union had deeded to throw in its lot witn the rtrikere."' (2) "As this statement was mirojitr:v dieted it was naturally taken that «om» arrangement with the Red Fedeiataott had been come to." As no such statements ever apnewt-d in tho prepe, ' 'Interested V vom-*J/»-plume should have been Ananias. Yet another instance of his fervid- imagination. He says,: "When the press item sinting that a ' union bad been f orrrcd was brought under the notice of a pv<--minent shipping agent, he advised tli3t fifteen clerks form a union under t\K» Arbitration Act." Of course! Juet sf»! And whe-u any of the Temnining c'-erti found fault with (he officers elected let them also form another union, and so on, nd infinitum. There, is a little legal difficulty in the way. however, that rendered that advice of the agent ultra vires, and that is that no two unions can be vegi/ierpd at once under the Act. As a matter of fact, no Biich thing was ever 'suggested by any agent. I work on the waterfront, and know every agent and ovpry clerk employed there, from the übiquitous "Fourpenny" to the "Head Lad" down, and this item comes as a &urpi<se packet to all of us, excepting the \\ rile. The rest of his statements are on a. pa 1 ' with the others, and he has got himself so tangled up amongst "preference and convenience clerks," "strike-breakers," and the men on the wharf, that (with your permission) 1 will leave him theie. In the meantime I am existing, and likg the Yankee pigstickerj J % J'lS S2t

making memey I'm seeing whips of fun" listening to thp tales of the clerks. U[j to now I'd no idea, what good fellows the bosses were, and fppl leal sorvv that such a. sordid thing np n union fhould lend fo destroy tho good fpilnwaliip at present existing between 'hemselves ami the head clerkt.. I rj, a , figuratively speaking, kick myself for belonging to an organisation that k tr\iug to prevent, thorn from kicking them outright. — I am, etc., SONXIE. Wellington, CGtb March.