WOMEN’S LAST SAY IN SEAMEN’S STRIKE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2340, 9 January 1926, Page 9

WOMEN’S LAST SAY IN SEAMEN’S STRIKE

How Was Australian Levy Disposed of?

LIVELY MEETING IN DOCKLAND

{By Elegtrlo Cablet-Copyright.] fAust, and N.Z. Cable Association.] jjjindon, January 7. were very lively scenes at a women”® meeting at Cannington to protest against the Fecent (seamen's strike. Many Red* and Idle seamen were present, Wben the chairwoman, Miss Bowerman, the ex-suffragette, pleaded; lor an Industrial Locarno. the sea mqa sang "Tel| Mo the Old, Old Stqpy,’’ 4 Mrs pyumpiond submitted a motion protesting ftgalust outside tampering with the seamen's affaire. disorderly, people shouted "Lies!’’ and two women stood up and attack, ed those on the platform. tßiere was goon pandemonium, Union official* wore shouted down and a body of women assembled beneath the platform anti yelled their grievances. Captain Davies, trustee of the Seamen's Union, obtained order, whereupon ho declared that Mr Havelock wi|»on was being vilified wd crweifi-d by Inches. He described the men whp called out the seamen as either petty villains or fools. iphe motion was parried, though them was a good deal of opposition. Mr Davies paid the unionists ol Australia levied themselves flve shi). linp in aid of the dependants, and £3090 was unofficially collected here '■Did you get any of it?" (Loud chorus “no."J Before Mrs Drummond’s motion wag carried after a passage protesting agafpst Mr Tom Walsh, or any of his emissaries coming to England to stir up further strife had been deleted.