WATERSIDE STRIKE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 12120, 23 December 1913, Page 5

WATERSIDE STRIKE.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.)

Received December 23, at 9.15 a.m

Sydney, December 23. The wharf laborers manned the, wharves without exception yesterday afternoon, creating fresh scenes^ of activity. During the morning it was dojjbtful whether the normal conditions would be resumed, but after dinner the old casual hands supplanted the clerks in handling the cargo. Thevessels worked were the Niagara from Vancouver, the Canada. Cape, the Malic no (receiving cargo for Auckland), together with the Riverina (due to sail to New Zealand ports on Wednesday).

Received December 23, ;it 9.40 a.m. Sydney, December 23. Mr D. Watson lias been re-elected President of the Northern Colliery Employees' Federation. ; In a speech he saicl that the news that the New Zealand strike was over bad been received with a sense of relief. From the commencement he had regarded it as hopeless, inasmuch*as no intimation was received on this side of water until apparent defeat was staring theni in the face. The disastrous struggle m New Zealand demonstrated to the workers of Australia this necessity for an' organisation in which the united wisdom of the various unions and bodies may be directed towards any trouble arising in the industrial;field.

(Per ..Pbess. Association.) , . , -AVestport, December 23. - Delegates of the coalminers' unions on the Coast are Still: sitting in conference considering matters in relation to resuming work. No decision had been annoiinced up to noon. . ' The Union Company has intimate.i to the miners' representatives : "We are going to protect ourselves with regard to coal and arrangements are now .n train- whereby we can immediately close an order for sufficient to keep us going for six months." _ . . Thirty men at Seddonville State Mine commenced work this morning loading slack into trucks to supply a Union. Company order- Three shifts will .)e worked. It is understood that the men are ready to enter the mine when the whistle blows.

(By Telegraph.) ' (Special to Oamaru Mail.) The "Red's" official organ is much chastened, and to-day's issue contains no comment on the executive's admission of defeat. One report has an. allegation that Young tricked the seamen into going back on the miners. The press are invited to a meeting of the seamen this afternoon. Ft is understood that the purpose is to vindicate Mr Young's action. It is expected that, the next few days will bring thrilling reflations of things done privately during recent weeks.