AFTER THE STRIKE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12043, 4 May 1920, Page 5

AFTER THE STRIKE.

STATEMENT BY E.F.C.A. EXECUTIVE

The exe-utive of the New Zealand Locomotive Engineers, Firemen and Gleaners' Association made the following statement yesterday afternoon :

"A settlement having been agreed to thp Executive Council trusts that the people of New Zealand and the press will recognises that we have endeavoured to put up a claan sportsniaulike right Even in the negotiations the Prime Minister will rsudily admit that conciliation permeaied the proceedings oefcro him. At no time did the association use the "big stick." This fight has been the first railway strike in New Zealand of men who are almost to a man, New Zealaud born

"We considered, and otill consider, that our cause was a just one, and we entered into this right in the same way as half our members entered voluntarily Into the greatest of European wars—to win a fair 'dinknm' right We thank Uie people for the sportsmanlike manner in which they received the inconvenience imposed on them, and most heartily they were in no way instrumental in bringing about a strike; also for their kindly svcjpathy. We recognise fully the great principle which actuated those wl'.o refused to run trains which were not manned by members of our Union and also those who refused to nde in them. We have every hope that in the future a good feeling will exiFt, and that the railways will be run by the Government and the men in the best interests of the whole of the people of New Zealand."