"DAMN THE STRIKE!"
COAL LUMPERS' TROUBLE. By Cable—Prcsa Association— Copyright* Received Oct. 2!>, 8.36 p.m. Sydney, Oct. 29. In the Assembly Mr. Wade attacked thi! MinUter of Labor for want of courage in allowing the strikers to flout the law and thus assist the enemy.
Mr. Kddtm, in reply, appealed to his hrother workmen not to increase the Government's difficulties, and added: ''.Damn the strike!"
The coal-lumpers strongly resent the suggestion of ■ disloyalty and that the strike was engineered by Germans, and they characterise the statements as grossly malicious.
"NOT UNDERSTOOD."
\ .JUDGE'S COMMENTS. Iteeeived Oct. 20, 11.40 p,m. Sydney, Oct. 29. Justice Heydon, in granting the application to allow the prosecution of the striking lumpers to stand over, said that the way his remarks on the previous day were reported showed him to ha.ve been misunderstood, ire.would like to say that lie considered the lumpers as loyal as anyone else, but that it had never occurred to them that by their hasty action they stepped right over to the ranks of the Germans.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1915, Page 5
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