A CONTRADICTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 5

A CONTRADICTION.

AUCKLAND, Nov. 14. ''There is not the slightest doubt," said the chairman of the Central Strike Committee, in the presence of- his fel-low-committeemen this morning, "that these statements about the number of men at work on the waterfront and with the City Council are absolute fallacies. There never have been 100 men back with the City Council, and it is hardly likely that anything like that number intend to go back. So far as the conditions on the waterfront are concerned, the Strike Commitee state that from reliable information received they can say that everything is at sixes and sevens there —that there are 40 men working and about I*so looking on," At a meeting there were 300 members of the Timber Workers' Union present, and they were still "as staunch arid as loyal as ever." The resumption of work by the hotel employees will bring the total of the public services; and trades which have wholly or partly recommenced operations ".up to eight,-; This number in-cudes-&e.watersiders, of whom nearly j SW. are how partially working the port 4 j ■the-tetf-rooms and restaurants, all 61 which are open .arid, in full r working I order again, .the- city employees (of whom practically all except carters'have returned--to .work), the exhibition workers (of whom a large; -proportion are now at work and the | balance of whom are expected to accede j ito-ithe, executive's request to resume), the aerated water workers (of whom a sufficient number have returned to opera te^sbme, of the factories), the hotel ■ employees..(who to-day formed a union to be registered under the Arbitration Act); and the seamen, whose places as they_ left their ships have been filled' so promptly that practically every coastal "vessel has got away to time.