Second Edition. THE STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 65, 17 November 1913, Page 6

Second Edition. THE STRIKE.

“SPECIALS” ENROLLED AT

DUNEDIN.

' ARRANGING TO WORK WHARVES [Pee Press Association.] Dunedin, November 17. Over 400 city specials have been enrolled, and the Birch Street wharf and approaches have been barricaded. This afternoon 150 mounted specials will camp at Tahuna Park. Work starts to-morrow or Wednesday at the latest. NEW UNIONISTS NUMBER 700. ( mob inclined to be unruly. Wellington, November 17. The membership of the new union is 700. The Mararoa is unable to accommodate any more, and the men w orkiilg on the Marere are being housed and fed! on board.

The Athenic has completed coaling and will be ready to sail to-moi i ow. -Some slight resentment was shown when the * police first cleared the Square this morning, hut a display of force, in which no one was seriously hurt, quickly suppressed it. A number of men tried to get on the, Taranaki Street wharf where the Dorset was working, 'but mounted specials arrived and promptly scattered the unruly element. J

HE COT SIX WEEKS.

Wellington, November*!7

Richard Jones, who threw bars of iron at a mounted special, and sought to establish an alibi did not succeed, and was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment.

WORK AT THE EXHIBITION.

Auckland, November 17

There is a great renewal of activity at the Exhibition, 220 men having returned* to work;-'' They are busily engaged inside and -outside, in addition to thirty employed,on Wonderland Ptuk.

AN ELTHAM CONTINGENT.

THE FACTORIES’ DECISION.

Elt-ham, November 17. if e*<Aiu further of mounted special constables* ‘26 in number, left here to-day for Wellington. Many more express their willingness to go if required. The majority of the dairy factories in the district have definitely decided t-tdgi# shut onlyQd in the Ib'on huUorfat supplied during 'October. ; isrtLwsL • ■ - i:; -* v |