THE RECENT STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 97, 24 December 1913, Page 5

THE RECENT STRIKE.

SEAMEN’S SECRETARY ASKED TO RESIGN. [Per Press Association.! Wellington, 'December 24. At a meeting attended by 197 seamen, the following motions were declared carried: —(l) That the action of Mr Young and his committee in going round vessels declaring there was no meeting of seamen to-day be condemned; (2) that this meeting of j seamen passes a motion of no-confl--1 deuce in Mr Young, and that he be tasked to resign his position as seerejtary of tile Wellington branch of the Seamen’s Union. ■ •

WELLINGTON MATTERS. Wellington, December 24. Many more strikers signed on with the now union this morning, only those who paid entrance fee and two months’ subscription, seventy-one altogether being accepted. The shipwrights’ branch or the Waterworkers’ Union have written to the Central Strike Committee, asking for an enquiry as to who was responsible for calling off the strike, and urging tb.e Federation v-ccutive to retain the mine tea of the proceedings so that they contu ne usea at the enquiry, explanation was also demanded of the seamen’s delegates as to the attitude adopted by them. The Committee’s reply is not yet available.