ON STRIKE.
The boys who cry the newspapers in the evening put a pistol at" the heads of the proprietors yesterday with a demand for higher-pay. They claimed an extra twopence a dozen, equivalent to a 50 per cent, increase. The industry could not stand the strain, the strikers were told. The announcement was received with derision, and what followed was a close imitation of what the boys believed was the attitude that organised labour would take in the same circumstances. • ,:'■■.•
What led up to the strike is not clear. The «Star" boys, at all events, have been regarded as a satisfled body of workers. But adult agitators got among them during the afternoon and fomented ■industrial strife.
At 4 o'clock, the demands being unsatisfied, a demonstration took pkce in Cathedral Square and the vicinity of the publishing-room.. The boys armed themselves with rolls of paper, and prepared to assault;" blacklegs." ■ The men who sell papers were not molested, but there was a good deal of excitement, and two adult partisans had a free fight in the right ; -of-way.—" Lyttelton Times." * ■ ■'
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8724, 25 November 1913, Page 2
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181ON STRIKE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8724, 25 November 1913, Page 2
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