STILL NO SETTLEMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3509, 8 December 1913, Page 5

STILL NO SETTLEMENT.

THE GREAT WATERSIDE STRIKE

MEETING OF NON-STRIKINC UNIONS. GOVERNMENT CALLED ON TO INTERCEDE. • [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM] ' WELLINGTON, Dec. 7. AC a meeting to-day of representatives of the unions not out on strike, resolutions were carried calling upon the Government to intercede in the present industrial crisis by compelling ihe employers to agree to the reasonable proposal put forward by the United Federation of Labor; that Sir Joshua Williams he appointed to arbitrate in the dispute! and further that a petition for signature among unions and the general public be circulated asking the Government to bring the parties together. Trades Councils in other centres are to be asked to co-operate in this direction. Twenty vessels were at the wharves on Saturday and there was work for every’ one of the 140 men who came forward.

The Watersiders’ Union membership is now 192-5.

At 11.45 last night the Tahiti got away for Sydney. She carried a large number of passengers, but_ no cargo from this port. The Aorangi got away at- 6.30 this morning for San Francisco, and an hour earlier the Home liner Kia Ora had lifted her anchors in the stream, and left for London with a large cargo of general produce. It is hoped that the loading of frozen meat into the Nerehana will he completed, so that she can depart for London on Tuesday.