INDUSTRIAL UNREST

Evening Star, Issue 17192, 6 November 1919, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL UNREST

A WORD OF WARNING.

[Special to the •Stab,''!

CHRISTCIIURCH, November 5. "Wo appear to have just cscaued another 'industrial trouble ou the* waterfront," said the- chairman of the Lvttelton Harbor Board (Mr H. B. Sorcnsen) today. "The practical refusal of tho watersides to unload vessels bringing Australian coal resulted in considerable delays to shipping, and although the more eerioiia delays and inconvenience which, would have resulted from a prolonged labor struggle have, for the time being, br.cm postponed, the delay which did occur wilt hsi.ve to hz paid for immediately bv those shipping goods and ultimately by the consumers—that is, lbs general public." Mr Sor-ensen added that the trouble was of great import to the public, and v.nlo-s the community were prepared to w.tSxA an emergency which might come at any time thev would be in very serious difficulties. H--> honed that- the representatives of local bodies would consider the matter deenly with their constituent? in case it sboub' be pecensary for the economic existence «if their wives and children. He V-ped the board would excn?e him for nr.trinLi th* 1 matter stronsk-. but everybody knew it was looming ahead. "The General Election?" nneried T)r Thacker.

"No." said the chairman, "the difficulty of getting ffoods and supplies of coal and so on. 'Unless v:e are imiH-iI an -l prepared to do some work ourselves we may be left in the lurch. You know want I,mean, sir/'

Mr .T. Flood asked whether there tvjis any evidence in connection with Lyt-telton of what tho chairman had staged. " I am only apeakinc r£ what I see in the local pnne.rs," said M»- S-ren?en. " aid what has taken nines in Willing tin.' WW. has been is possible in the future, and T think .-every man should bo alive'to the-f-'ct that there are two ?id"s to the auction." '