THE LOCK-OUT.

Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1500, 6 March 1903, Page 2

THE LOCK-OUT.

(BY TELEQRAPU —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, List Night. The furniture trade lock-out docs not include all the men employed at tho trade but ICO are idle.

The position is that the employers have retuned the men whom they think worth Is 3d au hour awarded by the Court, aud dismissed all others. The award raised the wages from Is Id to Is 3d, which, the Union contend, is the rate paid in the. South. Wellington, This Day.

A meeting of the Trades and L.ibour Council last night, carried a resolution expressing sympathy v. itli the Auckland carpenters, and agreeing to grant them whatever assistance they may require to successfully eombut the Auckland employers. The resolution, however, was only carried by a majority of one. Du.nkdin. This Day.

The Irades Council has resolved to express indignation at the action of the furniture trade employers in locking out workers in contravention of the spirit of ths Conciliation and Arbitration Act and their determination to import cheap goods, principally manufactured by Chinese, from Australia. The Council asks the Premier to use his influence in preventing this section of the employers inaugurating a system evidently intended to destroy the working-' of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act.