WHARF LABOURERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 4, 14 December 1911, Page 5

WHARF LABOURERS.

THE TROUBLE AT TIMARU

(Per Press Association.) Timaru, December 13. An agreement was come to between the shipping agents and the _ watersido workers to-duy under which the latter resume work to-morrow at rates offered them by employers on Tuesday. The agreement holds only till next Tuesday evening, pending the result of the conference at Dunedin that day relating to Lyttelton and railway society’s representatives in replv to the telegrams of protest is one from Sir Joseph Ward, who says, “Railwaymen cannot be employed to receive cargo from a Chinese crew. Regret that any difficulty has arisen, but the dispute of waterside workers must be settled upon its merits in the ordinary wav.” Hon J. A. Millar wired: “Instructions have been given that permanent men are not to be called on.” Consequently no work was done on the Anerley’s cargo tof Oregon timber. There is no other boat in port to-day. CHINESE LABOUR. Wellington, December 13. In reply to protests received from Timaru 're the wharf labourers’ trouble and Chinese labour, the Prime Minister has sent the following telegram:—“Regret that any difficulty has arisen at Timaru. The railway employees cannot be expect'd to take the place of the waterside vorkers and receive cargo worked by r Chinese crew. Anything I can do to help to settle the dispute will be /bully done, but in the interests of vhitc men and their wives and famines who reside in the Dominion, I eel sure you will, on reflection, igree with* me that it is neither fair >'or right that railway employees should be allowed to take the place if waterside workers pending the set.lenient of the trouble.—J. G. Ward.”