HEROIC HAYSEED HUZZARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 438, 15 November 1913, Page 2

HEROIC HAYSEED HUZZARS.

A Sinister Sign Destroy ed s

Until Saturday last there hung up outside the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union offices a harmless large .'calico-slgri;." bearing the words-, | "Workers ,of the World, Unite. .One Big, Union.!.'; .. ,„ , .. i ' Although^, .not perhaps quite, .plear I m its meaning', the sign was a, : perfectly., harmless one, and calculated to hurttho feelings of no one, not even" ' a Wowser. However,' the ; brave, bold hooligans from the spudpatch "and' the separator, with their marvellous brains, must have discov-ered-some awful meaning m it. Something retUly anarchical which i would cause- the. .price of- wool and eggs to drop with a crash, and driyo capital, put., of the country. Therefore; some [of these brave boys -tore, that wicked^ daiigerbus sign frown 'filnd tdre it : into tibbons; and' : wiiri" *no doubt, take these-rib-bons'honifc to show to dad and the "blokes" as » TROPHIES OF A BLOODY .- ENCOUNTER r' with- the awful strikers armed with dynamite," revolvers, cannons, gaspipes: and barbed-wire. There is. a restaurant a£ the top of Queen-street which announces m the windows, that it serves strikers and' no others. Perhaps the "Hayseed Hussars'* may find m this another grevious affront and smash the windows of that restaurant. It would be perfectly m keeping with, and no worse than, the tearing of the sign;