THE STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 November 1913, Page 4

THE STRIKE.

The position in regard to the strike has not undergone much change during the last few days. At Wellington and Auckland, where the farmers and business men have got to work in earnest, the strike is slowly fizzling out. Notwithstanding that hundreds of men are idle, work on the wharves at both cities is proceeding almost as briskly as before the,strike, and nobody is "being very seriously inconvenienced. The call for a general iStrike lias met with practically no response, and those ' outside the watersidors who were foolish enough to go out at Auckland, are climbing over one another to get back. At Christ church the position is more .serious. The farmers and mercantile firms have been slow to move, with the result that shipping has been tied up for an unnecessarily long period, and hundreds of factory hands have been thrown out of employment. The only thing for it is to form an Arbitration Union at Lyttelton, as has been dotne in the northern cities. The last hope of the strike-leaders that they would force the employers to their kneeg by shutting out the coal supplies, lias beon shattered, as arrangements have been completed for sup plica from abroad. The tion in regard to) Australian.shipping is not very serious. It will affect the watersiders and seamen more than it will the general public. The Labour Federation has fought to a finish, but .apparently it will not realise that it is beaten.