The Auckland bootmakers' strike is still unsettled. The members of the Operative Bootmakers' Union have been called out of the factory of Mr C. H. Sexton, Newton, on the ground that Mr Sexton was supplying a non-Union manufacturer. Mr W. Leys has written to the Union suggesting the desirability of conciliatory measures. A conference wa3 held on the 2nd insti., between committees. of the Auckland Employers' Union and delegates from 'the Bootmakers' Union, but it ended without any definite result* Subsequently, a general meeting of the em ployers declined to accept the federal statement of the Union and the clauses regarding free labour, and consequently matters are still unsettled.
Mr J. M. McDonald, the delegate to New Zealand from the Queensland Shearers' Union, addressed a meeting on June 3rd, in the Academy of Music, Lorne-streeb, in reference to the present strike of the Queensland shearers. There was only a small attendance, though the meeting under the auspices of the Trades and Labour Council. Mr W. J. BeehaD, Presi dent of the Auckland Liberal Political Association, was elected chairman. Mr McDonald gave an account of theoriginand early working of the Shearers , Union. Hβ pointed out that the real cause of the pre sent trouble was that the employers were continuing the effort to crush Unionism, that was opened in the maritime strike.
