SHIPPING TROUBLE
POLICE DIFFICULTY SOLVED STRIKERS MARCH TO GAOL CUT TO WIN [Per United Press Association.] AVIvULINGTON, September 14. Tlicro was another phase oi the seamen’s strike this morning. Last week eighty-six of the Arawa’s crew wore sente need to six weeks’ imprisonment, and ordered to forfeit ascertain amount of pay. That the serving of the warrants for their arrest would bo a difficult matter for the police was understood at the time, hut the convicted men, no doubt 'under instructions, solved the difficulty. During tbo morning 500 of the strikers formed a procession, and marched through the town to tbo Tcrraeo Gaol. The sentenced men of the Arawa were at the rear. The men in the procession carried banners hearing the following inscriptions:— Arawa’s answer. Good old Havelock, we don’t think. _ Victims of Wilson’s treachery. We are out to win. The first round. The men sang songs cn route, and on arrival at the Terraco Gaol the procession opened up, and the men from the Arawa marched through linos to the gaol gales. .Mere they answered their names, and entered the prison's portal to the accompaniment ol cheers from the crowd. The whole proceeding was well organised and extremely orderly.
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Evening Star, Issue 19045, 14 September 1925, Page 8
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201SHIPPING TROUBLE Evening Star, Issue 19045, 14 September 1925, Page 8
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