RELIEF WORKERS ON STRIKE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18844, 6 April 1931, Page 11

RELIEF WORKERS ON STRIKE.

DEMONSTRATION IN TOELLLINQTON TRAFFIC HELD UP. By Telegraph—Preaa Association WELLINGTON, April 4. About 400 relief workers on strike were addressed by one of their number In the Trades Hall yand this morning, and urged to keep on strike, after which a procession was formed down the principal city streets. Banners protesting against the new relief rates were carried. The party formed up outside the newspaper offices, which were counted out. The demonstrators then proceeded to Lambton Quay, where the tram traffic was held up, the demonstrators refusing to move off the tram rails. The situation several times became tense, trams proceeding at a walking pace pushing the demonstrators, who leaned against the buffers in an attempt to stop the trams. One car, after being held up for several hundred yards, gathered speed, charging through the head of the procession, and scattering the banners and demonstrators right and left. The demonstrators pulled off the trblley poles on one occasion, a scuffle ensuing between a tramwayman and a Another tram was similarly affected in Cuba Street. Outside the Trades Hall the procession stopped in the middle of the road, singing Red songs and stopping tram traffic. .The demonstrators dispersed after a j further demonstration had been arranged.