STRIKERS AT SMITHFIELD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13069, 8 May 1913, Page 8

STRIKERS AT SMITHFIELD.

WOR.K PROCEEDING.

BUSINESS MEN HELP TO LOAD THE ZEALANDIQ. j

{Per Press Association.) . TLNIARU, last night. ! Work is proceeding at Smithfield today with a good number of killers. There were many applicants, but come selection according to skill was necessary. At Pareora some free men knocked off m sympathy with unionists. No difficulty is anticipated m getting ■ free { men. j The- eteamer Zealandic came. m. yes,- j terday to load 30,000 carcases, meat, j tallow, etc. The watersiders would not turn to. In the afternoon theft said they were waiting for instructions from the headquarters of the Federation, the same reply being given this morning. The ihip.'s . agents gave, them till nuon to mako up their minds, and* the union not being prepared to answer at noon, free lobqi; was, caUe t d.fpr fT an J d c Ui,e i r.e were plenty of applicants to form the gang, some prominent business . people taking, o£ their coats to set an example. Those m authority- state-that-''for- inexperienced men they got through the afternoon's work with creditable expedition m loading both, goods and carcases, passing the latter into the hold'-fukt/istowing m very good time per traffib- j';. W