No Backing Down.

NZ Truth, Issue 443, 13 December 1913, Page 2

No Backing Down.

Lyttelton Watersiders Formulate Now Demands.

During Uio past week general interest iv Uio strike wtw overshadowed by tho 'propaganda m connection with. Tuesduy's election. Loading and discharging operations proceeded quietly at tho Lyttelton wharves. ; Tho Wateraiders ar<? as determined ' as over In their stand, uud, so far, j not ono unionist has "ratted." ' Karly m tho wcok tho Strike Com-' mltteo established v airlko camp at I'upnnul, where there aro now 11 goodly number of seamen and Jjromtm under convas. Tho sanitary arrangements at tho ca^np are perfect, and tho general routinw (h carried out on strictly disciplinary lin<?«. i>pocinl« have boon w thdrawn from thoir 'sickening promenade of Christ. chui*oh Htroets, but tbore aro still about 250 either at Lyttelton or m camp at Addington. it ( S generally | felt m Cbristchurcb that tflo development or settlement of tho strike re»tt» iftj'Koly with thoKiicccs^ of tho Atwtralian boycott of New Zealand ships. H is reported thai th«» T.ytteHon WnUTHiders Jmv^ presented "to the shipping companies a jn«»mora«dum (Jtatfnj? tho load Union'B K r '«^'«ncw that nro required to be ntljustwl. opart from the present troubles, hefore any of tho unionists will return to work.