TIRED OF ROAD WORK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12789, 14 June 1912, Page 2

TIRED OF ROAD WORK.

(Per "Press Association.^ " ('iREYMOU-TH,- last night; The waterside workers' have decided! not to make a' levy to" 'assist the. ' \Vaihi '. and Reef ton strikers. The ; reason assigned is that .they were .under- -the Arbitration* Court. ' ' V V ■ V 7 •RE , E3?TpN,vla«t. night. Hon. J... Col vin intimated his inten-j tion of arriving. in»i- Reef tort to-night, and offering to mediate tin the dispute, i Unfortunate^, Messrs. Winter ... and! Evans, manjagejj of 'the company and. president of tlie •Miners.' Union, respec- j tively, jufct left for the conference ; at Waihi, but there is not. niuoh hope entertained here of success there. I/tj is considered the Re'efton dispute should j be considered on its own- basis. The.secretary of the Miners' Union here r has agreed, to lay the case before the,' Minister: ••'-";■;". 77:. .- ' ' ' ■■. j -A meeting of the Miners' 'Union' is to be Held to-iii^ht, and. the .business is' stated 'to • ; be ' impor.,t'a t*t. Tlie • men- are • utterly disgusted with the long. delay,' and many, are veiy tired of load and, railway construction 'work', "as. -the wea-j. ther .hfa^ -heen terrible. , ■•'''• I Through tho tyain l: b;eing latfeVto- night, '. a.. good deception \y ill be given the Hon. | J: Colvin, whose 1 action m coming herei is much, appreciated. The 'secretary! of the Miners' .Union, however, stated . the miners- will not grant any eonces--j sions M-hatever, but will submit their . case to the Minister. j ...-"• » WELLINGTON, tthis dayV' -.« . A deputation from the Federation of Labor waited- upon v - theV"WelliiYg£on Trades Council last • night,' and asked for the co-operation of ' the latter body* m the , Waihi and 'Reef ton strikes. Tlie Oousncil Was unable -to- see. its way to comply with the .request* „rlti>i» uriderstoodi the M feeling of the Council- was piore favorable *to 'the : Reef ton men ■ than to those at Waihi". Z ■■: • I