SYDNEY GAS STRIKE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 548, 8 March 1913, Page 5

SYDNEY GAS STRIKE.

COLLEGE BOYS HECKLED. Received March 7, 11.5 p.m. By Telegraph— Press Association— CoiiyTifftH Sydney, Friday. A dozen technical college youths who volunteered to assist in making gas, marched four deep to Kent street i gasworks, where eight hundred strikers were waiting to receive wages due. The first youths wore merely hooted, but when they turned down Gas Lane were assaulted with streams of beer from the adjacent hotel. The boys found they had gone to the wrong gate and marched back the same route followed by a jeering, excited crowd, including a number of women. As the boys reached George street there were cries of "Down with them!" and they were surrounded. One was struck on the jaw, but the presence of a solitary constable did something to check the hecklers, who were now all youths. A number of plain clothes constables appeared and bundled the youths into a passing tram.

A conference of seven representatives on each side aat all the afternoon, Messrs McGowen, Flowers, Carmichael and Eden being present. A partial gas service is available in the city from five to ten o'clock tonight. If the strike ib tomorrow there is some probability that the employees of catering and butchering firms who contracted to supply free labourers will refuse to do work connected with the supplying of these meals.