WEST COAST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 17 November 1913, Page 5

WEST COAST.

PROCEEDINGS IN GREYMOUTH

GREYMOUTH, Nov. 16. On Saturday the Federation held what was billed to be a huge demonstration of workers, organised and unorganised, as a protest against the arrest of the strike leaders in Weliinton. Heavy rain commenced to fall at the hour of starting, and the proceedings went very flat. The procession, headed by two red banners, consisted^ mainly of State miners, accompanied by women with perambulators, •he streets were crowded with people. Owing to the continued rain, open-air speech-making was abandoned and an adjournment was made to the Town Hall. Various speakers addressed the meeting denouncing the Government, the Employers' Union, the press in. general, and the local press in particular, lhe citizens will hold a meeting to-day (Monday) to arrange for working the port. _ °

It is understood that local business people are stopping the credit system to all strikers.

WESTPORT, Nov. 16. fetores have run out of flour, sugar potatoes, onions, and some other lines but there is still a good supply of shelf lines. Notice has been given to the Buller Hospital and Charitable Aid lioarcl that they cannot be supplied with bread after Thursday. The Kairaki was expected here from Lyttelton with a cargo of produce, but advice has now a£ re^ ceived that she is not coming lhe General Laborers' Unicn passed a resolution calling on the Government to release the imprisoned leaders