TIN POT STRIKES

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13734, 28 May 1913, Page 6

TIN POT STRIKES

DISCOURAGED BY FEDERATION

OF LABOUII

A PROJECTED ARRANGEMENT.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Wc':?ngt.3n, Mr.y

Tlio-ro is -Fonrooly a'.iy nre<l for tho alarm repnrte-d tr> ho iV-it in Oliristohureh ovor the co:ri;:irr conference of shipowner*' renrer^fcativ^s with d-n)<v-,gates from the Federation of Labour executive b?-o"nsc. as I understand from r, tn-jfcworthv r.oum v, tho Federation is iv a reasonable mood. Its object is to »?<euro a good understanding, and <?:isi.i«; a obii'Stant supply, of reliable wharf vrorkprs.

'"Iliofo tin pot Rtrikos every fiv<» or ton . miivutcr. must r'<?»Tse," declared a prominent .FoJenvtionist to your correspondent. His roferenrp app'iod- particularly to Tiiiip.ru, where, I have jmth-orod, on former occasions tho militant me'Tril}orß of the Federation have o£ten acted 'precipitately, and without authority. "I don't moan to say that wo would sign" away our right to f.trike," continwxJ.. ray informant. "That snggostipn a?Knit. a bond, though it was mado, is absnrd. Wo must protect our organisati' 1'! by being prepared to act promptly; in such cases as the Hnntly mine victimisation."

Tli.? conference will not be hoM on Friday, as was first arranged, but will tak« placo next week to suit the shipowners' representatives. Trie- employment of fr-re labour is to. bo discussed, and an endeavour mado to f-ocurc a wider f.opiication of tho preference to unionists clanrm of tho agreement—rm •agreement which the Union Ktnnrn Ship Cnin*«any, the largest employers of wh.irf labour at so'n-Mwrn ports, hivo al\v(v-'Fi roPT!<xrtp<). Tt \?, expected that tho Now Zealand Shipping' Company wi,l] filftn come to m nrran^om-ent with tho *Vr>r.itifm. rn<] ti?e nltiTnaie result should bo to dispose- ■completely of those wucid^n ri;vl f.rr»cmo'nb *",trikf-p which havo mvc:ficl so' much resentment- in the

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