THE GOAL STRIKE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9137, 9 February 1910, Page 2

THE GOAL STRIKE.

SOCIALIST SYMPATHY.

THE LEADERS ARRESTED.

(By Electhic Telegraph—Copybight.}

(Pee Press association.) SYDNEY, Feb. 8.

A Socialist body known as the International Industrialists to-day organised a demonstration a-i a, protest against the imprisonment of Peter Bowling and the other strike leaders.

Several hundreds of men, after being warned by the police, inarched in procession through the streets, headed by a red flag, singing revolutionary _ songs, hooting Premier Wade, and cheering the imprisoned leaders. Paseing the Darlinghurst gaol a posse of police captured the flag, scattered the procession, and arrested the six leaders, Fcldhausen, Anderson, Considine, Riley, Hansen, and Morris, on charges of behaving in an offensive manner in the public streets. THE WAGES BOARD. NEWCASTLE, Feb. 8. The Newcastle Miners' Delegate Board has decided to recommend the Miners' Lodges to immediately take a ballot whether they should be represented on the Wages Board. Proceedings were lively, a section of the delegates strongly deprecating any weakening in regard to the strike or having anything to do with the Wages Board. CHARGES AGAINST STRIKE LEADERS. SYDNEY, Feb. 8. The hearing of the conspiracy charges against Bowling and the other leaders has been resumed. Brcnnan, who is still ill, stayed only a few minutes in Court. The Crown's case has closed.