A STRIKE-STRICKEN TRADE.

Timaru Herald, Volume 5264, Issue 5264, 15 October 1891, Page 4

A STRIKE-STRICKEN TRADE.

j 'Ihe.Greiy Eiver^jy/tWßayg':— tt'hß Rosamond cotpiU«Dced to load coal yasterday afternoon, nfter having been lying idly alongside ho wharf since Friday last. This was not duo lo any want of cosl- but to the difficulty, of k^owiiif? whern to place a cargo of "black diiimondi,' all tho principal depots m thn colony apparently being full. I'hio Blulo of tilings is ono of the legacies of f.ho slri!;B, upd m oil probability the colony is doßlinod to suffor from it . for mom linio Jo ; oomo. Instead of fihaw, Havillo Company arid tho New Zsalnnd Snipping Company mji.g.New Z/>nl;in'l .coal, as they . did formerly, tbt>y wore compelled torejort to tho plan of bringing coal -frooj flame, by mean* of cargo BteftTruM. They pbjeot U» entering; into any .coal contracts m Ibis colony and eubjoet f.lismsolvoß to the dangers of a ,'atrite clauee.' Xiiffc wnefc there were sfltiafc m iWollingtop liiai-hour 8000 tonn of .coal, not m liulk», faiit. -m t-b»» bottoms that b'roußJifj them out. Of lot 200O tons r.umo. diroefcifrom Cardiff, SOOO f ram EJfl'wcartlo, the balauctr boiog ttuju

Greymouth and Weatport. It is to all these causes we must look for an explanation 6f a boat like tho Rosamond lying empiy alongside the wharf for four days. ' Just now, when popular opinion is howling down the Upper House, it may convey a lesson to refleot how much hotter it would have been for the various Labour Unions if th'by had a superior body to act as a steadier to them and prevent them rushing to find ' disaafcer m the great labour Btrike. , If, instead of trusting blindly to Miller and tba Exeoutive, they had the advantage of a cheok' to enable them to take a little breathing time, tho oolony would have been a great deal better off to-day. In the coal trade alone there would hare been a more extensive market and 'a correspondingly enlarged field of employment. ■