COVERNMENT PROCLAMATION AND STRIKERS MANIFESTO.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12253, 12 May 1903, Page 7

COVERNMEN T PROCLAM A TION AND STRIKERS MANIFESTO.

PRDBABLE ATTITtTEiE OF FARLIA- ■/.;' .;;.;.; ; ,'Ment/ " : • ; \ Received '^aV.. 12, 0348 a.m. ' : .. Melßouine^ May '12. '_• The Government ,last night issued a' proclamation "warn^jg pepple,' under penalty of tW law,' 1 "not to assemble in _tjhe . street* ox- , n peighb.ouiihoocf ,, 6^ raUway o statibn,3f^rUsi.anj^ calling iipoa .ihcr public jo as^ikt' jji the mainienance' of law an£T order. Mo&rof. 'tit© meß^^>er3,of Parliaradnt seized tne opportujoity. tp r come to town on Friday^ ."before >>lock cam^j.'-in. ; xeadine / ss ,foi; the .oipearag of Parliament ,on Wcfdne^liay. What exactly j will ocdar cmuot be predictey but tdere is a' very general opinion that the . jGx>veiajm,ent ( will fee very strongly supported in the action it hast taken* -. - -j j - r>- \ „ - The strikers' executive has issued a manifesto to the voters of Victoria setting out .Jftafcf/lrtihey shad swbmitted to. >a igluction in^wa.ges and to oepnvf&oi\.'piceiiia^a'rights rai&sr than incoaveinießCft ;j t4e;, public, .but they verb' now eompelle4 to ,ra'okl»agn!i ?t t'.Ve, attempt. %o ..take* from , the. a 1 \w\ t y, of'ae-tsou ujider the law. Thty asV \\h**« »I',«/t l course was open, i«» Jl-f.-n an-! stttc tihat "the whole, blame ;^sibwlt 1 stn. unpige uho c= ,v v-4-x(B'i <:na Vt ,tne ■ "most'loAy obicln.tg h"die& in.' the- State . .into a my/it,/, -The l^flaanifesto qpncludes that 5 * f .i the Gotvernment.-wili only, suggest any reasonable- prpppiiiiQia>, v -tfc^y will find . fie reasionahte; . ;/We : : haye. . pravedour