PATRIOTIC WHARFIES.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2888, 7 March 1916, Page 1

PATRIOTIC WHARFIES.

STAND 15Y SENATOR PEARCE

Sydney, February 24. A proposal brought before the meeting of tin- Wharf Labourer..' Unrou last to lio-kl a .slop-work meeting as :;. protest ayain.st the, G o'clock «l<r>.sim i_; of hotels wa.s defeated by a. biy majority. The. decision ,i._ a hiyh.ly-,s%iiiiuc-ii.i-t one. It if, generally admitted that tin*' early closing presses a.s hardly upon wharf hib-owrers a<_ upon amy ] .section of unionr.sts-. Their work is | arduous, and tho toil in the opeiu air ! and often wider a fierce .sun is such las produces a real thirst. The early j closing is an, undoubted incouveniI en co to many of tliem. Yet last night, j f.roui the sneeeb-e.s made, it was e\"i----t dont. (ihii-t they a.ro not g<iing tv allow I pcivoiKil cousid'Ta I,ions to ovcr-ivdc { public iiii-icrcslH. Though conic of tho ' co-mpla.n ts made at the meeting last j night-wore vigorous, the general hotly | of men, uiamy of whose oouiradcs and [sons are ai t.hc-T-i-oiit. and are deeply j .concerned.in tho despatch of pro--1 perly-traiiucd ro'Liiforceinents, su.pported the notion taken by the Miuni-ster '. for Defence. A wharf labourer who opposed the stop-work pruposal rcma.rked this iDurning that fhe decision, of tho union was a geod peinler as to the altitude of union is!.-.: ■generally. Amd a earning to Mir Meagher in, ibis attack upon Senator Pearce.