PROBABLE SETTLEMENT.
Sept. 13. The Dock Committee have agreed to the proposal that the increase demanded by the men shall take effect from November 4, and the strikers will, in all probability, resume work on Monday next. Mklp.ouhxe, Sept. 13. The strike fund has reached L 13.300. Tho President of tho Stevedores' Union states that although they have not yet received any communication from London as to vessels leaving which have been loaded by blacklegs, the Union will refuse to discharge those vessels if requested. Wellington, to-day. With refoVence to tho cablegram from London published that the strikers had cabled to the Australian Unions asking them not to discharge vessels which had been loaded by "blacklegs." It may be mentioned that tho Seamen's Union here have received no notification to that effect. There is no Lumper's Union in Wellington.
The trades affiliated to trade and labor have subscribed L7O in aid of tho strikers, fund. Numerous lists have yet to bo collected.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5569, 14 September 1889, Page 2
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