THE SITUATION QUIET.
THE GOVERNMENT'S TRAIN SERVICE.
INCREASING SCARCITY OF DRIVERS.
AID FOR THE STRIKERS
ACTS OF VIOLENCE CONDEMNED.
(Received May 11th, 11.36 p.m.)
MELBOURNE, May 11. Strike affairs are quiet. Both sides are settling do"wn to a grim battle.
The Department did not attempt much to-day, owing to fewer drivers being available than on Saturday. They confined the suburban trains to a modified service on a few lines, but these were despatched with reasonable regularity.
A welcome feature of the day was the despatch of trains to BaUarat, Bendigb, Warrigal, and Albury, fourteen passengers journeying on the latter, while the others were only sparingly patronised.
The Government have made arrangements for the men running tlie trains to sleep and have their meals at the Spencer Street aheds, so as to preclude the necessity of running the gauntlet of the crowd outside. The sheda are strongly guarded, end the police k<wp_ the approaches dear. It is reported the strikers have been advised from America thaK£2O,CGO is available if required. The engineers' executive have received hundreds of sympathetic
CABLE NEWS.
telegrams from all parts of Australia, New Zealand, end elsewhere.' They assert tliat their members are increasing, that the men are stronger and more determined than ever, and that a number of those who went to the assistance of the Government have now joined them. Under the circumstances they consider picketing unnecessary. They disclaim any sympathy with the gospel of violence and interference with trains preaclied by Yarra-bank orators. The executive earnestly enjoined members to take no part in acts of vandalism and rowdyism. Thtn- are acting.lawfully, they nay, and will continue to do so. They claim that the strikers rescued the driver during Saturday night's aerimma-jd at North Melbourne.
THE SITUATION QUIET.
Press, Volume LX, Issue 11581, 12 May 1903, Page 5
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