ALLEGED SEDITIOUS STRIKE. (United Press Association.)

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 250, 17 October 1918, Page 2

ALLEGED SEDITIOUS STRIKE.

(United Press Association.)

O^HI: AKU., Oct. J]£. . At the .Magistrate,!«; : Court ..to-day, the Labour- Department/ proceeded] against 34 watersidei's on a" charge that on 'July 26th, .1810,':: at Oamaru/.they -were parties to a seditious .strike, % -to:'-'>yit,-.--\a strike of wharf- jabouvei«,.;w T hichwas seditious 'in- that- it had a 'tendency to interfere with. the effective . conduct of an industry declared).by. regulation to be an industry .* essential for' the- public welfare. ;to w-it. the loading and unloading of ships. . '. The charge arose out of the allegedf refusal of the watezwiders to. work after 2 o'clock at night-unloading the Kittawa, carrying coal. The Magistia*te reserved.his decision.

' ; America.. is fully. . determined! i that Germany shall experience, to'the full: the horrors of .war,",>said Clark-, son to a gathering aim home from America .and lEhglahd; ' 'M.r Clarlcson went on tcn'say;.that-Ayhiie the men at the-head of, ; AJJie;d^;,affairs '_iiv England 'aild Amei'ica'' d*.d rio<j| vanticipate an. early ; ; peace, -.' they.v .maintain ed that victory was in sight, and) .that the end of the. war could now be measured iii month's ;• instead, of Jyears. •■■ ; ; America was determined that' peace must 'be dictated on German soil, and: that -there could not be "a -cessation, of until the- Allies marched into P*erlin. The universal feeling in America was that KaiserTsm and the rule of nations by iorce miTS> be crush,ed for, ever. as. a German ideafc ,"

IThe economic boycott of Germany has begun in th o States .(says the Drapers' Record). -Arrangements have •been completed .by the. Alien Property Custodian - ; of: 'the ITJnited'States with the Fur .Merchants' Cre.dii Asspciation of 'New York, for the/pVr:ch.a%e;;by;-the. latter of: all the' interests in America ;oF' the Leipzig,dealers, in,, furs: .Before ';th.e war ""the trade of American furriprs wjte' really a. collecting•• and .shipping "agency lor the ' G&rmans.* : ' Plana have ;now. "been developed for entrenching '•firmly..- a dyeing.; aqd dressing,. in-, dustryin American.