LIVELY SCENES

Evening Star, Issue 19143, 9 January 1926, Page 5

LIVELY SCENES

THE RECENT SEAMEN'S STHIKE WOMEN’S PROTEST MEETING. Prc-sB Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 7. • Thera were lively scones at a women’s meeting at Canningtown to protest against the recent seamen's strike. Many “ Reds ” and idle seamen were present. When the chairwoman (Miss Bowerman), who was formerly an active suffragette, pleaded for an industrial Locarno, the seamen sang ‘ Tell Mo the Old, Old Story.’ Bliss Drummond submitted a motion protesting against outside persons tampering with the seamen’s affairs. _ The disorderly section of the audience shouted “Liesl” Two women stood up and attacked those on the platform. There was soon pandemonium. The union officials were shouted down, and a body of women assembled beneath the platform and yelled their grievances. Captain Davies, trustee of the feeamen’s Union, obtained order. He declared that Mr Havelock Wilson was being vilified and crucified by inches, and lie described the men who called out the seamen ns either potty villians or fools. ... ~ The motion was though there was a good deal of opposition. Captain Davies said that the unionists in Australia had levied themselves f, s each in aid of the dependents, and £3,000 had been unofficially collected here. “Did you get any of it? In reply to this there was a largo chorus of “ No.” Miss Drummond's motion was carried after a passage protesting against Walsh or any or his emissaries coming to England to stir up further strife had been deleted. —A. and N.Z. Cable.