"STICK BY THE SHIP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13230, 12 November 1913, Page 4

"STICK BY THE SHIP.

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night. It is reported that if the strike continues Messrs Stevenson and Cook, engineers at Port Chalmers, will have to discharge a number of employees at the end of the week owing to lack of work. Private information reached Dunedin this evening from Wellington that the newly-formed Waterside Workers' Union had been registered under the Arbitration Act. The membership of the Union is growing rapidly, a large number of applications having been received during the last two days. I At a meeting of the Dunedin branch of tho Seamen s Union held m the! Trades Hall to-night there were about! 120 members present, and the meeting lasted over two hours. It is understood that the seamen unanimously decided to stand by the agreements, * and that later m the day a genuine message was received from Mr Belcher, advising the Manuka's men to stand by the boat and not to come out. It was rumored today that a teleijram had been received at Port Chalmers purporting to emanate from Mr Belcher, calling on the men of the Manuka, which is due to arrive at Port Chalmers to-morrow morning, to come out. It was also stated that, later intelligence proved this first telegram to be "bogus.'' A ballot by the Green Island Miners' Union resulted, by a small margin m favor of continuing work. Another meeting will -probably be held this week to consider the question of giving monetary assistance to strikers.