AFTERMATH OF THE STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 43, 14 October 1912, Page 6

AFTERMATH OF THE STRIKE.

THE RESULT IN AUCKLAND

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, October 13. As the result of two Borough Councils and two private contractors having refused employment to workmen who took a holiday last Thursday to participate in the Federation demonstration against the imprisonment ol the Wailii strikers, the General Labonrers’ Union held a meeting to discuss the matter. It was stated that sixty men had been refused work, and the members resolved by a majority of four to one to coasp work from, -Seven o’clock this morning until the victimisation was removed. There was nothing like a general response, but a fair number failed to appear at various works. Of 400 men employed by the Harbour Board, sixty did not start work to-day. Of 120 men employed by the Remuera Road Board, 0110 hundred failed to appear. she Drainage, Board reports that about fifty labourers are on strike. The City Council workers are reduced to about the same number. The Morningside quarries closed owing to labourers going on strike, and only ten men failed to appear on the works of Mount Albert Borough. There is a disposition among local bodies to decline to again employ the men going on strike,, and it is expected some uniform action will be agreed upon. WE WON’T “DOWN TOOLS.” Later. A number of men engaged under the contractor putting down blocks m Fort Street were' visited by strike pickets, who called upon them to “down tools.” All their arguments , proved unavailing, and the men stuck to their work throughout the morning. While they were at lunch more strikers arrived, and warm arguments ensued, in which the men working denied that the strike had been authorised in a regular wav. Meanwhile tlm police kept the gathering crowd of spectators from blocking the street. At the end of lunch time, the whole of the workers resumed, amid cheers from the crowd.