WOMEN PARADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 302, 21 December 1932, Page 21

WOMEN PARADE.

FREEZING WORKS STRIKE.

FREE LABOURERS JOSTLED.

Women entered the freezing works dispute on Saturday at Long-burn when at least a dozen headed an early morning demonstration (states the "Manawatu Times"). Carrying a banner inscribed "No more starvation wages. We fight for a living," and an additional unprintable inscription, they paraded with the men along the main highway, into the private roadway leading to the works and around the works yard. When the free labourers commenced to arrive they had to run the gauntlet of criticism and in at least three cases were pushed from their bicycles. One worker suffered a lacerated hand when he struck the gravel. He managed to slip by a number of women and men waiting at the entrance to the works, ,bnt was pushed from his machine where the private road crosses over the railway line. Pie had to have his hand attended to.

Another worker pushed from his bicycle had the . back wheel damaged, while his lunch was thrown away. A third free labourer ended up in a drain with his bicycle badly damaged alongside of him. A fourth worker, a boy in his teens, was cuffed on the ear by eoineone behind him while talking to some of the men on strike. The demonstration was not without its humorous side for the onlookers when a free labourer took to his heels with several women in pursuit.