ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

Hastings Standard, Issue 215, 8 January 1897, Page 3

ENGINEERS' STRIKE.

SERIOUS COMPLICATION ARISING.

A DENIAL BY THE ENGINEERS' SECRETARY.

IVeN.N A»*">-ioti»u —' "'iji'/ridht.) Sydney, Jan. 7. The question of the engagement of lion-unionists in connection with the engineers' difficulty was under conbide ration to day. A meeting of the Shipowners Association drafted certain proposals in view of arriving at a compromise and forwarded them to the Engineers' Association, who are now discussing them. Important developments are expected to take |.lae. to-night. The engineers have been called out of the Adelaide Company's Franklin and H'lddart-Parker's Anglian, which were to have sailed to-day. Mkm«m-hxk, Jan. 7. The engineers' difficulty lias been further complicated. The engineer-' executive authori -ed all it- members to return to their steane-rs excepting tho-e of th.» Adelaide Company and Hnddart Parker. The Shipowners' Association thereupon held a meeting and decided to stand by Huddurt Parker and refuse to engage any engineer-' on -ti-ikc un!esthey abided by the compromise arrived at in Sydney, and allowi d the matter to W settled at a eoiifereliee. The Adelaide Company sent engineers from Adelaide and got the InniAluinka away. 'flu-, day. No furtlu r development - have taken plao •met ye-t> id*) VdiHn nM Th< Jv-Mtary of tin I n.' !.e« r» Soefty d-nit . th« stuU-uu lit lh.tt the t\e..ata. iii-irni.-d the New Zealand Engii;«'r- to kav. their employment. As a matt* r of fact he wr«»t« instruct mg them on no account to leau* work unh , -i ili-'.rti'-tloli- \n r«- rtb>d to do *ii. *J hj- >. er- t.tr-. ihi<tif' -r. f.uii !<> mid< (Mai. I the in« iii*;■ f thi resobi ttoO earned by the Ni w Ze.tlaiid eririif Kr-. and «•< »r:- «■!« f- that th» r»--i' lutu n f the I niiju t .>ui|>any i-XJ r * II , *ltlsfiic!..tl! ;tt the *:ipj«i-,-,J action of the enwiuM-ri bsifl upon » talM auniuuipuon.