POSITION AT AUCKLAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 November 1913, Page 5

POSITION AT AUCKLAND.

HUNDREDS RETURNING TO "WORK. WHARF WORK PROCEEDING BUSILY. AUCKLAND. Last Night. Looking back over the strike developments of the past fortnight, it is apparent that, despite all claims to the contrary, considerable ground has been lost by the strikers. This is borne out by the resumption of operations in many trades and. occupations originally.. affected/ and by the fact that over one half of the 6000 men who "downed tools" at 'the height of the excitement, have returned to work. Calculated on a fairly retiaßle basis it is estimated that the workers have lost something like £46,000 in wages since the trouble commenced. The men are steadily returning to work in the building trade, and the sawmills, which re-commenced operations on Friday, have even more men back. *Jn both directions a bigger turnout is expected on Monday. Nearly. 400 men, including timber workers, carpenters' labourers, and furniture workers, went back to work yesterday. The workshops and factories are augmenting their staffs each day, while over one hundred regular carters have returned ,in addition to 50 or 60 new hands, who have volunteered. The Exhibition Executive state that they have all the men required to finish off all work by Monday Meek next. Work was continued over the wharves yesterday under much the same conditions,-'and with only minor alterations in the vessels being dealt with. • All discharging and loading is proceeding briskly. Next week there will bo an increase in the number of watersiders at work, and a full programme will be mapped out for berthing the various vessels awaiting their turn. The principal "feature of the operations will be the attention to be given to the unloading of coal supplies. Last evening, the mail steamer Marania left Auckland for Vancouver. The Marama carried passengers, 10,000 boxes of butter, and other dairy prodtice. " The Auckland painters have decided by resolution to return to work on Monday. /