Second Edition. THE STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 88, 13 December 1913, Page 6

Second Edition. THE STRIKE.

fttIE'WELLINGTON WHARVES. [Pee Press Association.] Wellington, December 13. Work on the wharves is easier this morning, Saturday -generally being a slack-'day for transhipping. Only four vessels were taking transhipment, the Katria for Napier and '.Gisborne, Pa* teena for Lyttelton, the Nikau for Nelson, and the Orari for Patea, and the Blenheim for Blenheim. Twelve hundred men are engaged, and a good deal of labor still offering.

The N.Z. Shipping Company's ves »els are exeepticfrtally busy discharging and loading, and were doing a third of Ihe ! whole of the work on the wharves.

Members of the Arbitration I'nion ai'e'still sighing on freely, and a few more strikers came back this morning.

"SHEARERS' SECRETARY SPEAKS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] {United Press Association! 1 Sydney, December 13.

Mr Laracy, secretary of the Shearers' Union, Wellington, cabled to the Australian "Workers' Union that the waterside workers who came out are solid. The seamen, also the miners, aire on their own. The fight could be won if "good judgment was used. Finance was now the main question.

IMMIGRANTS' *HARD PLIGHT.

(Received 11.50 a.m.) Sydney, December 12

Eighty-two immigrants who arrived hy ; the Orsova, with their passages booked to New Zealand, are on their beam-ends. They cannot get to their d&tttiatiOn: They hoped to sail by the Mawitka, but that vessel is full, and they must wait for the Maunganui, which is to sail on Saturday week. Some ; of them are going to jobs in t'. Dominion. '