Shag Point.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6887, 24 June 1890, Page 2

Shag Point.

It is an illustration of the power of the new labour organisation. Two men were discharged from the mine, the manager said for incompetency, the men declared because of their Unionist proclivities. The Maritime Council intervened ; they offered arbitrations The masters were firm; perhaps, someone might say, obstinate. From the men's point of view, obstinacy is, of course, the proper word. Now, this is how the organisation deals with what it considers obstinacy. The proprietors are Messrs Boss and Glendinning and Messrs MaekerrasandHazlett. The former, soft goods men in a large way of business ; the latter, general merchants doing a large trade. Their merchandise is in many Bhips, in many harbours, or on many wharves, in warehouses awaiting tor cartage inland or delivery to the stevedores for moving by sea. The Maritime Council give the word, and every one of the packages of that great merchandise in everyone of the places where it finds itself, remains inert, dull, useless, cut off from the commerce of men. The touch of the hand of the Maritime Council in Dunedin moves the force of the boyoott over the whole of Australasia. It is now said that the owners of the Shag Point mine have settled matters. We are not astonished to hear it.