WHARF LABOURERS' STRIKE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143670, 14 December 1911, Page 2

WHARF LABOURERS' STRIKE.

AN AGREEMENT REACHED. Per Press Association. . TIMARU, Dec. 13. An agreement was come to between the shipping agents and the waterside workers to-day under which the latter resume work to-morrow at rates offered them by employers on Tuesday, The agreement holds only till next Tuesday evening, pending the result of the conference at Dunedin that day .relating to Lyttelton and "Westport as well as Timaru. Among the replies received by the railway society’s representatives in reply to the telegrams of protest is one from Sir Joseph Ward, who says, “Railwaymcn cannot be employed to receive cargo from a Chinese crew. Regret that any difficulty has arisen, but tho dispute of waterside workers must bo settled upon its merits in tho ordinary way.” Hon. J. A. Millar wired ; “Instructions have been given that permanent men are not to be callen on. Consequently no work was done on the Anerley’s cargo of Oregon timber. There is no other boat in port today. LABOUR LEADER’S VIEWS. ■ WELLINGTON, Dee. 14. Mr. Semple, of the Federation of Labour, says be has reason to believe that the Timaru trouble, also the Westport and Lyttelton grievances, Will be amicably settled, and states that the Federation lias proved itself not an organisation for the creation of strife, but has actually prevented strikes.