SETTLEMENT PROSPECTS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13846, 31 October 1913, Page 5

SETTLEMENT PROSPECTS.

STATEMENT BY

MR, YOUNG

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Wellington, Oct. 30

Lnin to-nio;ht your representative intcv\ HM\vxl Mr T. Y. Young, president 'of thr N^vV Zealand Federation of Lai>otir and secretary of the Wellington. Sea men's Union. 'Mr Young said that nothing r-ad boon done to-day towards r, sc-Ltlornr.nt. "We arc still awaiting ■ii\i°- exnk'itois' answer to our statemoht of terms' delivered ix> tliem^yes-tei-da.v afternoon," said the president. "These terms wore laid ?>ffore theip by a deputation o£ four, and I was advised! iw Air Kennedy, manager of the Uniont ■Company in Wellington, that he would call the'employers together to consider

them. I havo not li«ard if it has been done. , . mi j. - Our terms are that w.o will go to •work if the agreement is restored in its entirety by tno employers, while we on our sido are quite willing to give- art ■MKbrtakmg against "stop work" mooting during tile currercy of the1 agreement. Tiiis was tho statement taadc by tho president of tho Watersiders iTiiion who vas on tho deputation of lour. 'Since then we havo handed over iho whole control to the Keacration oi Labour."