THE STRENUOUS STRIKE

NZ Truth, Issue 441, 6 December 1913, Page 5

THE STRENUOUS STRIKE

EMPLOYERS DETERMINED TO CRUSH FEDERATION.

WORKtRS REASONABLE 6lfT RESOLUTE.

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/- As we go to pYess; there is little or >o alteration m the "position m Wel■lington. So far as the men on strike f are concerned they are- as. as and their confidence In th^lrleiid•ers unabated. The employers 1 persistent rejection of the Federation's offer Vto submit the points m dispute to Sir Joshua Williams has rebounded to their * own hurt, ' and: many of the smaller business men, who a^e being heavily hit but the pigheatfear persistency witn 'which the shipping; companies for 'their own ends perpetuate the present /paralysis of trade, are now expressing ' sentiments other than friendly tv- ; * -wards the U.S.S. and its supporters m 'the present conflict ; The outstahdiiV feature of the past v, week has been, the rilessage ( f rom the of-- the i Common wealth to "workers -of ■'■■New!| Zoaland v that if [^■fcemployers ' persist 1 m their refusal i^BPsiibtnit the points m dispute to the of an independent arbitrator, . /tW^^ill /mak6 f iVcomiiion cause" with ,them arid' boycott all \esielsi coming ->lrom or goinjjr to ; .Ne^ • Zealand ports. •■,< 'The employem fail to reepg>niso, that this decision of the Austra- * Han 'unionists Immensely strengthens 'tho men's ipt)sltlonfhe^e, and that they -do ;so^ Regard it. is^eiflilent' from the f long cables "of explanation they have .hurriedly dispatched tor Mr. Hughes /and other Australian Labor leaders. ,'This, taken with the sudden^qliange m - the attitude x>f the '•Evening Post" ffrom one of backing without Thyme or > reason the shipping companies m their . / dog-in-the-manger attitude, to polite^ \y and broadly : hinting that if they }j would checkmate Mr.i Hughe's Aug. tralian. ulttraatuni they had better f.or- ; mulate some fresh bajjis of settlement likely to meet with cjven & grudging by the jii6n. To sum up, 1 ' finds that on \ the, past week's' dolhgjs tho points are with the men. Certainly they seem m * a much stronger position than they i. were when this paper! went to press f last week, anfl there is! no lack of e\i- . dence that the emissjirlea of Capital so consider it ■