Banished Strikers

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 207, 2 March 1914, Page 5

Banished Strikers

DYNAMITING AND PLOTTING. LABOR LEADER'S DENIAL. . TO RETURN TO SOUTH AFRICA. By Cable—Press As>oi i;tl ii.n—Copyright. Li.i'aLm, February 2S!. Wsiterson, speaking at the Opera House, denied that (lie d.-porieds were guilty of dynamiting or plotting to establish a provisional government. He admitted that the miners on the Rand during the strike had spoken about a provisional .government. A demonstration at the Opera pledged itself to assist the deporteds to return to South Africa. A conference of the Labor Parly and tlie deported men divided to obtain the highest legal opinion on the deportation. Tlie Daily Citizen stales that I'.ain has instituted prncculings against several Loudon newspapers for libel regarding his career.

AX VPUOARIuI'S MKICTINt:. ration, axi/ekek eiciits. ' Received 1. :<.:> p.m. London. February 28. Tlie chief sensation at the Opera House was caused by Waterston, who incidentally said: ''l don't know what the Labor Party is like in England/' Whereupon cries of "rotten!" came from extreme Socialists, mid an uproar onsued. Waterston attempted to right the matter by saying that the. Labor Party in South Africa was small, but mili-

taut, strong, and uncompromising. Tiie uproar was renewed when YVatcrslon concluded by saying:—''.if the Labor members didn't play the game they must be put out!" Mr. Ramsay MarDomild, M.P., at the conclusion of Die meeting, was hissed and booed by the snll'ragettes and tile extreme Socialists. The meeting ended in turmoil and free lights. Potitsma, one of the banished leaders, speaking at the Opera House, said if the Union Government knew of all the documents in his possession they would regret not making a proper search before exiling him. He was going to use the documents in the future. He incidentally stated that he had been a naturalised British subject since ISM. PREVENTING FUTURE TROUBLE. A FAR-RFACHIXC MEASURE. Received 1, 5.5 p.m. Capetown, February 28. The measure now before the House empowers the police to arrest without warrant persons suspected of treason or inciting thereto. It protects workmen from intimidation, and prohibits picketing. It penalises those committing a breach of contract involving danger to the public 'by persons in public utility services. It empowers the Government to prohibit or disperse riotous gatherings, and remove persons convicted of sedition or incitement thereto unless born in South Africa.

INDEMNITY ACT. AX ALL-NIGHT SITTING. '/ Capetown, February 27. The House had an all-night sitting, the Laljoritcs using obstructionist tactics and calling for many divisions. There were frequent scenes. All the amendments were rejected, and the committee passed the clause indemnifying the Government for all its acts.