STRIKE MAY COLLAPSE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 November 1925, Page 11

STRIKE MAY COLLAPSE

REPORT FROM BRISBANE. AFFAIRS AT BOWEN. FARMERS TO BE RESTRAINED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIA LTON—COPYRIGHT (Received Nov. 3, 11.35 a.m.) BRISBANE, Nov. 3. As the steamer Pipiriki was rounding Kangaroo Point strikers bombarded the vessel with stones, but the missiles fell short. The general feeling on the waterfront at Bowen is that the. strike will colapse this week. Many inquiries have been received from strikers as to the terms they will receive if they return to work. The police at Bowen have received official instructions that under no circumstances must farmers be allowed to lay hands upon the property of the Railway Department. This prevented the Port Hardy from being coaled. EXCITING CHASE. POLICE PURSUE STRIKERS. Received Nov. 3, noon.

PERTH, Nov. 3. After the attack commenced the strikers rushed to the Argylesliire. from the deck of which they, assisted by other strikers, bombarded the police. The latter boarded the Argylesliire, and, after an exciting chase*under a heavy bombardment of coal, finally cornered the strikers in the stokehold.

Later advices state that many on both sides were sent to hospital.

COAL FOR THE PORT HARDY. Received Nov. 3, noon. BRISBANE, Nov. 3. The chairman of the transport strike committee in Brisbane announced that the committee had agreed to supply sufficient coal to the Port Hardy to enable its refrigerators to be worked. LONG DELAYED STEAMER SAILS. Received Nov 3, noon. ADELAIDE, Nov. 3. After two months’ delay the steamer Ascanius has sailed. Its stokehold was manned by stewards. POLICE ESCORT PILOT. Received Nov. 3, noon. PERTH, Nov. 3. Under . instructions from the Seamens’ Union the .crew of the pilot steamer, refused to convey the pilot to the motor-ship Enton on Saturday, and the pilot was carried by the police launch. DECLINED TO WORK. TROUBLE WITH PORT DARWIN’S CREW. (BY TELEGRAPH: —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, Nov. 3. Further, . trouWe developed with regard to the striking, seamen who came from Wellington to join the Port Darwin. After several days the men were taken aboard the vessel, but subsequently declined to work and returned to shore, giving as their reason that they would not work with free labour-, ers. The seamen concerned were formerly members of the crew of the Arawa, and were imprisoned at Wellington, and .upon’their release were brought to Gisborne to join the Port Darwin,. which came direct to Brisbane from Sydney, where s he was held up by the, strike, and was partially'manned with l free labour. Severa, 1 . strikers were to-day found work with the local watersiders. It was stated by the agents that The sailing of the Port Darwin would not be affected. COAL LUMPERS AFFECTED. BY STRIKERS’ DECISION. (Received Nov.- 3, noon. SYDNEY, Nov. 3. Coal lumpers are badly affected by the seamen’s refusal to work colliers carrying coal to> tied-up ships. More than half the total membership of the union are unemployed, and the union has stopped further donations .to the strikers’ funds.