THE TIMARU STRIKE.
MINISTER CANNOT INTERFERE.
FARMERS WILL WORK THE PORT.
[BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Timarc, Saturday. TnE case of the men recently on strike at Timaru was put before the Minister for Railways vesterday by a representative of the Timaru Waterside Workers' Union. The Minister replied that, as the trouble was really a dispute between two union*, he could not interfere, in if..
Th* district executive of the Farmers' Union, air a meting to-day, expressed a groat disgust at the action of the wharf workers in striking*or so trivial a reason as an objection to the railway men. Members said that from what they had heard in the country there would be no difficulty in getting men to come to town to work the boat*. They added that they themselves would come rather than ' see the union win on such grounds. The executive decided to invite applications from farmers' sons to work the port until the unionists resume.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15170, 9 December 1912, Page 8
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