YESTERDAY'S SENSATIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10923, 12 November 1913, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S SENSATIONS.

■LEADERS IN GAOL.

A RAID BY THE POLICE.

ARRESTED. A POLICE COUP. j STRIKE LEADERS GAOLED. I [From Our Correspondent.] . . WELLINGTON. November 11. Three prominent leaders m the raterside trouble were arrested on .warrant to-night. Thoy are George Bailey, chairman of the watersiders ulrike meetings (a waterside worker), r., Eraser, secretary of tho New Zealand Social Democratic Party (formerly ot the Auckland General Labourers Union), and Robert Semple, organiser «i tho.TJnitcu Federation- of Labour. The charges are using language calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. The arrests.took placo at Lambton Station about 10.15 o'clock, when the trio, together with Mr Parry, another prominent Federationist, returned by , train from Petone, where they, had addressed a meeting. In tho tram was the Waterside Workers' Band, which beguiled the journey W!th ( selections i the final was a cornet solo, "Auld Lang Se accused .were arrested by ChiefDetective Broberg and seven other members of the force, and wiU bejetained until they come before a Magistrate in the morning. THE CHARGES. The complaints on which the strike leaders were arrested are enumerated BB follows: , i .1. i M .ft, ' Peter Fraser is charged that on October 29, at Wellington, he incited persons to commit a breach of the peace bv uttering the following words : ""Our friend here says we are not coihg to be starved, but the papers to-, day have announced in the most coldblooded manner possible that the emplovers have settled down to- a' starvation campaign. 1 Now, in. the older countries of the world they have played that game., only there the workers starve whether they are!on strike or not. " Sometimes "they starve a little more, sometimes a little less.- At. Dublin the other day they tried to starve them, but they > have not done it'yet, and here in God's own country (God likes it so much that Ho keeps it all to, Himself and gives none of it to the workers), they are talking of.it in this country. There is any amount of grain and sheep and food, and the workers' produce, .every ounce of It, and if the workers'livo by,the great law k/town to nature, the law of self-pre-eeryatiori, .the law . which, must have obedience and transcends ©very, lawmade by human society—if it compels the workers to got food, then the ■workers of New Zealand are going to ' get and'if a few doors have to be hurst like the Basin Reserve gate all the worse for the doors." Application is made on this complaint that Fraser be required to find sureties to keep the peace towards his Majesty end all his liege subiects.; George Bailey is charged with having on October 29 inoited persons to commit a breach of the peace by uttering the following words:—"l read that the grooms who "are attending the. horses of the mounted constables who nie distributed at _ different parts of the city are being paid at the rate of 103 a day. Any person who knows the grooms should try to induce them to cease work. You could drop a few matches or indulge in a little sabotage, which is the latest'method of industrial'warfare."

•TWO CHARGES AGAINST SEMPLE. f- Robert 'Sempie is charged with two offences. The first is with having on November 1, ,at Wellington, incited divers unknown persons to resist constables stationed in Wellington in the execution of their duty. The second charge against Sempie Sa that on November 1 he incited persons to commit a breach of the peace by uttering the following words:— ■" Sinc9 I Save arrived in Wellington 'I have ;received a wire to say- that Superintendent Mitchell has been withdrawn . from the charge at Auckland. Cullen and Herdman are responsible for this. Cullen is sheltering in an office, and will not be seen leading the men. I hope that there will be no shooting, but if any is done, and Cullen will come out, I-undertake'to shoot bim first."

."[From Ottk Cokrxsfondunt,]. . l .-..„ WELLINGTON, November 12. Mr H. Holland, editor of the lust on midnight, upon a charge of in'jitement to provoke a breach of the jeace.

PARLIAMENT DISC&SSES THE SITUATION.

which will be over ready to obey the behest and dictates of tho officials of the companies placed in the ranks of the Union. Regarding these bogus unions, the attitude taken up by a large nuinbor of the Arbitration unions of New Zealand who,have come to our aid in the dispute goes to show the publio clearly that the new Union is a union in name only. It is really an abuse of the term, and will do more harm than good 'to legitimate unionism. The effect will be to show that Arbitration unionism is simply another weapon to aid the employer. Although Messrs Reardon, Carey and others of that school have come to the assistance of the employers in the trouble, the rank and file' aro with us. On all sides we meet individual members of unions who are convening meetings of their organisations with the expressed intention of net only assisting us in our fight, but also of cleansing their ranks of paid officials who have abused their positions and joined with the special constables, ' scabs' and bogus unionists in an endeavour to stamp out the essential principle of unionism. These'men can he well left to their own members to deal with as they deem fit. "As far as this committee is concerned, it is determined to fight on. It well recognises that a strike is never lost. _ The 1890 strike, although lost in the industrial field, proved victorious as far as the progress of the country was concerned. It resulted in the wiping out of the unprogressive, hard-shelled Tory Government and gaining the freer progress of the industrial democracy of New Zealand. The same may be said of the great strikes .of Australia and elsewhere. Comparatively speaking, the average worker has nothing to lose by a: six months' holidays. The waterside worker ,has sat on the end of the "wharf for months at a time, at the behest of the employer, and he is well satisfied to wait a month or two longer in order to maintain the right to organise ,in bis own way."