THE TURF.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 326, 12 January 1914, Page 6

THE TURF.

WELLINGTON WITHDRAWALS.

Wellington, Jan. 12.

Bliss, Bon Ton, Mysteriod, Crown Pearl and Royal Arms were scratched at 10.30 to-day for all engagements at the Wellington meeting.

STRIKE AFTERMATH.

A MELEE AT WELLINGTON

ABSENCE OF PILLAGING

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Jan. 12.

The most serious melee since the strike ended occurred between King’s arid Glasgow wharves a night or two ago. While a party of half-a dozen coal workers, who were new hands, were returning from the steamer Rotorua after their day’r work was finished, they were set upon by a party of ex strikers, num bering fifteen or twenty, and a general fracas occurred, in which bottles, lumps of coal, and fists were used and one ex strikers was severely handled. His injuries are not serious, however.

Enquiries show that practically no pillaging has been reported since the strike. Prior to the strike, a good many complaints were made, but it was very difficult "to detect the offenders. •

The wharf officials says that com pared with the aftermath c>f the' 1890 strike, the present conditions are comparatively quiet and peaceful. No very serious scrummaging be tween the old and new hands had occurred, whereas after the former strike there were clashes for twelve months afterwards. As the result of the conference between the employers anil the executive of th? Arbitration Union, the Labour foremen have had strict instructions to give preference to men who joined during the strike. Any foreman not conforming to this instruction is litble to dismissal.

Although two or three hundred preference badges have been issued, very few were in evidence when labour was put on this morning. They are not really necessary, however, as the foreman knows most of the old and new hands by sight. >

About three or four hundred exstrikers hung about the wharves today unable to get work.