REGENT TRAM STRIKE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 47, 8 February 1912, Page 5

REGENT TRAM STRIKE.

' WILL. THE LAW BE ' VINDICATED. ! 'by telegriph - special j (Own Correspondent). i Wellington. Eeb. 7. it i- i’i ported. -,’.y- to-night's ’ “Post." that the Labour Depart- ■ mcnL !< mokinu prepmations to vinjdieaie the law which was flouted by J the promoti-i.- of the tiamway strike. ! The unionists themselves must, of ■course, recointi'-e ill’ll the Depart 'mint is under an obligation to take ! action. The men struck deliberately. | They were well aware of the clause | requiring fourteen day's clear notice iof an intension to strike. We stale tliis calmly as a matter of history. :and we shall be coiitein, with the (general public to await the seqti. I j ti. tiie strike in the hope that meni- • bci-i of the “Aiding and abetting ! Strike (’ommirree will nut be overi looked when the tramway men are i summoned to ( oiii’t. The prospec t iof p, cut ion in this case is a re- : minder of the strike of the members ■of the General Labourers’ Union. | omph.yed l,y tlie Auckland DrainIjoard last October. Me have • no i v ids nee that the Labour Dep.ti ’mi h;’- attempt) d (•> oii.ia <,.• I strikers to book. M e irivv tee tul(lowing significant dates : The strike i Lea-111 on im- 3dlli October and landed on 31st October; the regis'.-a-tioti of the union wa- cutter lied • n i 2ml November: the I’i-'-i B.ti i.-i of ;i»e General Election was on 7th ‘ December. ’ I At the time when the uiro’i was 'embroiled with tm- board about 'Jn- ; ‘ :>l.‘-ront; acting j ‘ ineipli the i'.iio- : | ists wire members of the i Nt ,v Zealand Federation of ...il>> jof which the organiser. Air. Semple, i made fiery exhortations. The tin ■> i I confide t’.i of the support >t thru : E.-t ! < ration wlio-e lec.di rs do n<e I disguise their scorn of the Arbitra-;ti'-n A<-t. diil not he.-itat.’ to strike. | So far as we know the men struck Jwith impunity. M’o -hall be phased | to be corrected if we are doing tin [Labour Dipartment any injustice [The Merchant Service Guild did not je-’-apo pim-eeulion. The guild was ; fined Emo. but ha- appealed again -t ■ the -t riieiice. If tt was fair to pto.se ' < tue :h<- guild v* 1 y was il not fa:’’ (•.-■•-in .:tc tiie Auckland General , La ! ...ns Union v.liiih wits backed L. ti e ’ Bevolutionary Socialists " ire-re are sitege tier.* cf anothi’. • train- ay strike here, or what will ’to ..il intent- and purpe- es amount a ’-trike. Mr. Young, secretary | cf the Seaman’s Union, to-day stat ’ed that if legal proceeding’■ are in--titui-d against the mon the trainv.av -vivice v. il! again be -uspended ’ f< i some rlays to enable the men ir ,im called as witnesses. The sccrc I tary of the Labour Department says ' there should he no necessniy for al! , w.-iv up-n being pre*.,- nt when itho case’ is heard, providi’fl thnt they ' api.’i nt so;..H ody to i ipre-i’iit I th'-m : but even if it should bo ncrio. isary for the whole of the men to . .aope.ar. it ( -nn be anting, d at such itm-e m> that no mix nvenience can ’ i„. , i>., f [ t ither l<> l.he trnmw-’v de- ’ partition 1 or the general public. M: t Young, io rr ply. .-ays: — ”The-e is •: , pr. baL’i'itv that if proceedings are j instituted against me for a In- ” h . ! , tlm law that I shall subpoena cverv man in the tramway service and put I them in the witness box to give • ■ ■- i de-nce. The tram service can st until the case is over.