DASTARDLY CONDUCT OF RIOTERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1899, 6 November 1913, Page 8

DASTARDLY CONDUCT OF RIOTERS.

. TWENTY CASUALTIES. . : POLICE MAKE NUMEROUS ARRESTS. ;free labour to-day. 7 TSE;: ATHENE TO BE LOADED. / : MAORI HELD UP. .firemen' influenced by the mob. Waterside.Workers, when they broke their agreement, were , i;. be.irig.paid Is. sd. an, hour ordinary time,-2s. 2d. an hour overtime j.,,,;,,up.t0 IP,p.m.; 2s.'3d. per hour overtime 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. For ■ ,speciai 'work special rates of pay-were provided, coal carriers, — - the highest paid, receiving' 2s. an hour ordinary time, 3s. an hour ~i„ .-f overtime v., ,„.i Friday, -October-17.—Shipwrightsasked for increase in wages. Saturs . ' .lfay, October 18.—Shipwrights ceascd work.' Monday, October 2D.—First mass meeting Watorside Workers' Union, -.I.- at whichlt was decided to call a "stop-work" meeting, to be held at 3 a»m. on - Wednesday, October ZZ. • ' Wednesday, October 22.—"Stop-work" meeting of Waterside Workers' Union held on wharf.. While men were attending meeting, " '• " 'which, being held in working hours, was -a breach of agreement, other union men were put on to work in their places. Unjon. desired that ; "stop-work" men, be reinstated in their positions. Employers decided , that men's action in knocking off work in breach of .agreement terminated the agreement-with the union, which had been entered into in -1912. Waterside Workers' Union hand control of strike over to the Federation of Labour. • Waterside Workers' Union strikes. Thursday, October 23.—Big mass meeting of strikers. Wharves " ' picketed. Union S.S. Compahy pays crews off colliers. Frea labourers commence work. Negotiations between strike delegates and employers fail. Report of intention of Waterside Workers' Union to register a second union under the Arbitration Act- Speeches in the Post Office Square \ Friday, October 24.—Scenes of violence on the wharves. Conference of Federation of Labour delegates proves abortive, Employers decide. to cease work as far as- handling cargo is concerned. Fifty police guard . \ the wharves. ' Warehouse clerks work cargo in small steamers. Saturday, October 25.—Further scenes of violence on wharves. . Steamers Defender and Nikau-rushed—crews intimidated. Police from country arrive. Employers, issue a statement to the effect that no watersiders will be employed until a fresh organisation be formed and registered under. Arbitration Act. Watersiders decide to continue strike. Harbour Board pickets' the wharves. .. Sunday* October-26—.Mass meeting .at -2.15.; p.m. In Post Office Square.. Procession to Basin Reserve) Gate broken down by crowd. ' Inflammatory speeches by strike'loaders. Monday, October 27.—Labour Day and a holiday. Observed by strikers as well as the public. No change in the situation. Tuesday, October 28.—Conference between employers and employees. with Hon. W. F. ■ Massey, Prime Minister, as chairman, More police arrive. S.S. Nikau : rushed. All steamers move to an anchorage in the stream. Racehorses allowed to leave for south. Wednesday, October 29.—Employers' proposals from previous evening's conference submitted to the watersiders, and rejected. Raid made on flour and other provisions being sent to Day's Bay by Cobar. Goods subsequently allowed to be shipped. Further violent speeches by . ■ agitators in the-Post Office Square. Encounter at night betweon suspected free labourers arid strikers at Waterloo Quay. Auckland and Westport watersiders strike. Thursday, October 30.—Strikers assault special constables, Waterloo Quay fence broken down and horses liberated. Men of H.M.S. Psyche on parade. Ps)-che's stores landed from Ulimaroa by bluejackets. Mounted constables parade streets and charge strikers in Post Office Square. Three hundred special constables sworn in. Onset on Messrs. . Whitcombe and Tombs' shop; constable severely wounded. Prime Minister states the Government's position. Lyttelton watersiders strike. Saturday, November I.—Quiet day. Employers enlarge their strike committee;- Large bodies of specials arrive from the country. Skir- " mishes with strikers in town. Wahine's crew give notice to strike. Oamaru watersiders join strike. ■' ; \ Sunday, November 2,—Deputation from combined Labour bodies to Prime Minister with proposals'for settlement. Mass meetings at Newtown Park and Opera House. Further contingents of special constables arrive. Wahlne laid t up In stream. Strike pickets withdrawn from wharves. Outlook for settlement more hopeful. Greymouth Union , come out on - strike. , . . ■ • - Monday, November 3.—Wahine's men come ashore. Wellington branch of Seamen's Union decide to strike if free labour is employed. Negotiations between employers and workers entered upon and adjourned till following day. Mapourika enters ferry service to replace .Wahine, Government steamers held In readiness for mails, Serious 7 ' riot in Taranaki'Street," special oonstables being attacked by mob. • Several persons injured—three seriously. Revolvers used. Mob in- ><•• ,- dulges in window-breaking and other damage. Tuesday, November 4.—Negotiations for settlement 1 broken off on employers stipulating on union registering under Arbitration Act. Em-' ployers refuse Harbour Board's invitation to meet workers in conference. Mass meeting of strikers at Newtown Park. Hinemoa's crew give notice. Two special constables severely handled in Tory Street. Attempt to block cartage"of straw to barracks. - Mayor closes seven hotels in evening. Royal Tiger. Hotel besieged. Two men arrested.

Wednesday, November s.—Racehorses for New Zealand Cup Meeting shipped on Maunganui for Lyttelton by free labour. Mounted special 'constables- guarding the wharf stoned by crowd. Eight arrests made, and about thirty persons wounded In the melee.

Work'is to be resumed on wharves to-dayj, wien. the , Athenic will be brought alongside the Glasgow Wharf and -loaded by free labour.

and joaded by free labour. ' "As'a''preliminary to tie working of cargo, a number of racehorses were yesterday, afternoon, shipped'south on the Maungan'ui, for the Christchurch Clip meeting. During this work 'the approach to the wharves was guarded by a force of about 1000 of the special mounted constables.- : The constables were repeatedly stoned by: the strikers and their sympathisers. The crowd was several times charged and dispersed, and some eight arrests were effected, most of these by the special foot constables assembled on the lawn at the rear of the Government Buildings. The injured number about thirty, and include both strikers and special constables. The strikers last evening held a mass meeting at Newtown Park, but this was quiet and orderly.' Quietness also prevailed in the streets in the neighbourhood of the barracks and the Royal Tk'er Hotel, the scene of. disturbances on"the previous day. ' Advice was received at an early hour this morning that the ferry steamer Maori had been held up at Lvttolton. owing to her firemen having been called out. An endeavour was made to ship another crew but the vessel was still at the Lyttclton wharf at latest advices. . . , Information was recoived last night that a new union of waterside workers had bcon formed for the purpo.se ,of registering under the Arbitration Act.