GENERAL STRIKE IN AUCKLAND.

King Country Chronicle, 8 November 1913, Page 5

GENERAL STRIKE IN AUCKLAND.

MANY UNIONS OUT. Auckland, Tbii D»y. Work was resumed on the waterfront this morning. Three hundred special foot police and four hundred mounted Rpecialß arrived simultaneously at the waterfront at 5 o'clock thia morning; the former from the Drill Hall, where they were accommodated last night; the latter from the Domain camp. Thoy proceeded to barricade Queen's wharf, using huge timber piles which were rivetted together forming a formidable barricade at tho town end of the pier Meantime a squad of police arrived with o search warrnt and entered the room occupied by the waterside workers overlooking the wharf. They found a number of bludgeons, batons, pepaner atones, wire and other material. The watersiders did not put in an appearance, but immediately it was known special police were on the w aterrfont a general Strike was ordered and responded to by the carters, carpenters, bricklayers.general labourers, and others. Meantime the steamers of the Northern Company being engaged in coastal trade, berthed and loading will proceed by members of the new arbitration union. The Mayor and chairman of the Harbour Board Bpoke personally and as citizens declaring free labour was not to be used. They believed there were sufficient men in I the new union to do the work required. 5 All the city hotels closed at 8 o'clock. The big crowd close to the waterfront were kept back by mounted police. The streets and footpaths were sanded to* prevent the horses slipping on the asphalt, The watersiders and other men on strike marched in squads to the Trades Hall where a big meeting is proceeding. HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM COAL. WORKED BY STRIKERS. Christchurch, This Day. The waterside workers yesterday discharged thirty tons of coal for the hospitals and asylums the pay received being devoted to the Btrike funds. At a conference between Christchurch and Lyttelton Strike Committees, an arrangement was come to that no matter what touk place at Wellington there was to be no fighting or violence in Lyttelton.