INTERFERENCE WITH TRAINS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12252, 11 May 1903, Page 7

INTERFERENCE WITH TRAINS.

EFFECT ON SOTPPTNG. .INCREASE IN ITNEMpT/)TOD. „ „; , i THfeQfecftftne, May 11. Several aitojnM' ' fo >T66k, Wains; liave been .report.^* „ ..j . /■_, _, ,[ ; '

Near Porras, , a.^ heavy rail was' placed across the' line. Tfie alleged cause of tihe engine leaving''the' rails at Port Melbourne was interference" with the promts. ' ". , The -cl&raihnent* of" an e«gijio at' Seymour wwars r due to a similar cause. The ?oods sheds at Spencer, Street are strongly guarded by the police. .Already ' v shipping is beginning to feel the effects of the strike, anfd there is a ru«ih for; /berthing t accomimotla--tion. More vessels \vilL be put on. Delay is being caused in hanMling tho cargo owing to the wai\t of railway facilities. ■ .- . *The .real piricih of the position will liot be" felt for a few days, r Large firms are taking steps to re- [ (4uce their ihaixds as tihe reskilt of slackness of bustness, and i\ is expected that before the end of "the week sevejral thousand emp^^ees will be thrown iidle.

-The Argius says the strikers have underestimated the site'aHy determina-tion-and Xfinflinohing front -wihich. the comaw unity will * oppose to the attempted dictation r of a. small minor.iib'y. The autocratic go»veminonts of Eiirope have~a &hort""""Wy thro*ugh these cases and the strength of democratic government in £uch an emer— g-ency has now to be testccl. All tihe leading inter-State newspapers publish leaders cojfdeminatory of tiie men's action and consider that they have been badly advised and the blunder m^ist end in their lasting defeat.