A STAND TAKEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 12 September 1890, Page 2

A STAND TAKEN.

The Litest and most, i nporfcant devel >pement of the strikers at Westport is tint Mr Waters, managing engiueer of tbe Westport oal Company, notifies that tbe directors of the \V* - Btp »rfc Coal Company have on all occasions f-ndeavou ed to meet th<* v ews of their employe^, and although p-iying higher wages than art obtainable e'gewhere, they have! lately submitted to a re«triction or output and <ther unreasonable demands t-> the serious detriment of > the shareholders' interest, but not- j withstandi >g the mine has been laid idie without any , d mand having i been made en the company or even naming a cause at issue The directors therefore are now compelled in se f-defence to invite labour, Union or' non-Union, a*;d are piepared to enter into twelve nion?h>* agreement with suitable men, giving a preference in the first instance to tho-e in the dis* rict. This deter i ination haß been arrived at rolucuiinly, but will now be adhered to. It is a certainty tbe present miners as a ' body will not go^to work under tx* : isting circumstances. The local '

pVice foice has baen increased to 15 men, in view of the new departure at Denniston detailed above. The la our U., {mists offered to imload the barquentne Carrie L. Tyler, which arrived from Lyttelton with a cargo of wheat. They st ted they wislie 1 that there shou d not be any scarcity of flour in the city, and agreed to do the work at ' Union rites and hand the proceeds to the strike fund. Tho agent for the yes sel, informed them, however, that the l>ar -jneiitine would be unloaded with non-Union labour, 'Ibis has caused considerable feeiing araongso the Unionists.-