STILL ON STRIKE.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 24 August 1937, Page 3

STILL ON STRIKE.

CARPENTERS AT ORAKEI. MAY INVOLVE OTHERS. UNLESS SPEEDILY SETTLED. [By Telegraph.—Press Association] AUCKLAND, Aug. 24. After three uavs of negotiations no settlement has been reached in the strike of carpenters engaged in the erection of State houses at Orakei. Now it is feared the strike will involve all the workers employed on the contract by the Fletcher Construction Company and its sub-contractors, with the exception of apprentices, watchmen and a few hands at the Penrose factory. A number of bricklayers and bricklayers’ labourers resumed work this morning, but there is only sufficient work to keep them employed for a few days. Roof tilers' are still working, but there are only two roofs to be completed. , The total number of men engaged on the job at Orakei is 275. At the joinery factory and mill at Penrose 90 are employed. The sub-contractors for plumbing, plastering, tile-laying, etc., employ 92. “If a settlement is not reached speed ily, nobody will be at work on the job after the present week,” said Mr. W. Fletcher, principal of the contracting firm, this morning. “If the strike had not occurred 3T houses would have been completed in a month- frorii the Hate the strike commenced;”