THE STRIKE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 December 1913, Page 7

THE STRIKE.

WORK AT WELLINGTON

BT TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION. U WELLINGTON, Dec. 15. Activity on the wharves was well maintained to-day, when twenty-two [ vessels, including half a dozen Home liners, were working cargo and 1360 arbitrationists were engaged. There i was no surplus labor. During the morning a dozen new hands signed on, but only two of them were ex-strikers. They were not ordinary cargo workers, however, but "coaties," who were looked upon as the last ten who would come in. From what can be ascertained, there appears to be a strong feeling among the seamen in favor of resuming, whatever the decision of the Federation Conference, and several of them applied to get back on their old ships. No decision has been announced by the conference yet.