A GRAVE SITUATION.
RESQLUTIOSM OF VARIOUS UNIONS.
COUNCIL GIVEN TILL NOON TO SIGN.
SCENE AT COUNCIL MEETING.
THE LATEST REPORT STATES THAT THE STRIKE HAS BEEN SETTLED.
Tho strike situation to-day is very ;grave. Representatives of the various f. ratios Unions mot iv conference yesmlay morning and passed a resolution unanimously to the effect tluit if requested by the Strike Committee, they will recommend their respective Unions o"do\vii tools." The original ■demam!-: of the men have now heen modifie.l. The Strike Committee has given t!ie City Council until noon to-day to sign an amended proposal regarding Inspector Fuller's position. At a meeting held at the Basin Reservo yesterday afternoon, attended by about ?>{){)() people, a resolution was carried calling upon the Council to sign the new proposal, or, in the alternative, to resign iv a body. It was indicated by the speakers that, failing a settlement to-day, n general strike would take place. The aetingjUayor lias made a statement to the press in which he declares that all matters in dispute between the Union and the Council are at an end, and that, the way is clear for the men now to resume work. The City Council wore to meet again at 11 a.m. to-
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11265, 5 February 1912, Page 5
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204A GRAVE SITUATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11265, 5 February 1912, Page 5
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