OFFICIAL CENSURED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10927, 17 November 1913, Page 6

OFFICIAL CENSURED.

LABOURERS SAY SHOULD BE •' REMOVED. [Per Press Association.] AVANGANUI, November 17. At a meeting of tho General Labourers' Union, the secretary reported having received ballot papers from Wellington in regard to taking a secret ballot as to whether the general labourers should down tools. It was resolved to return the ballot papers with an explanatory letter that the'local branch strongly censures the general secretary for his attitude during the strike, and recommend his immediate removal from office. . -HE THREW IRON BARS. NO ALIBI FOR JONES. ;[Per Press Association.] ! WELLINGTON, November 17. Richard Jones, who threw bars of iron at mounted specials, sought to establish 'an alibi He did not succeed, and yeas sentenced to six weeks' imprisonmeni.. Sft THE NEW UNION. HUNDRED MEMBERS! ' ; ■n■ ■ ■ "'- > "tThe membership of the new union is now 700. : - The men working the Marere are beinghoused and fed on board; •■The Athenic has completed coaling and is ready to sail to-morrow. Some slight resentment was shown when'"the police first cleared the Square this mornino;, but the display pf force, in which no one -was seriously hurt, quickly suppressed it. A number of men tried to get on the Taranaki Street wharf, where the Dorset was working. .. Mounted specials arrived and promptly scattered the unruly element.