VICTORY CERTAIN.

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

VICTORY CERTAIN.

HOPES OF LEADERS. [Pee Pbkss Association.] AUCKLAND, November 11. Between 700 and 800 men and a number of women attended a mass meeting of strikers in Victoria Park to-day. Several of the leaders addressed the majority of the speakers urging the strikers to stand hrm for another week, when the em- - plovers rapid sue for terms. Some of the speeches were moderate in tone, the speakers deprecating all suggestions of violence and stating that the men could best attain their purpose by, solidarity. Others were of a most revolutionary character, attacking in turn the law, the church, the newspapers, the Government and the constitution of society generally. One speaker declared that the statement that several' hundreds of watersiders had been engaged and that boats were being worked was a "newspaper lie," but afterwards! gave a description of the discharging of the Mimiro and | other waterside operations which he I said had been furnished him by two of their members who were at present acting as spies' on the waterfront.' "This' speaker also referred in strong terms fco certain members of the old Water- ' side Workers' Union who were expressing their doubts of the wisdom of continuing the strike. He said they should be batoned. The Union president declared that the fight was against compulsory arbitration and that ail other issues should be ignored. He asserted that the registered unions now • on strike were inclined to cancel their registration and would certainly do so if the strike was not; settled within'; seven days. ■ v Many of the speakers devoted a good deal of time to heartening the strikers and telling them that victory was certain. They said that 10,000 men were on strike. They bitterly attacked those Wellington Labour leaders who had spoken "against the syndicalist strike and they declared that under no oircumstancos would they allow individual strikers or those dependent upon them to go in want. A BOYCOTT PROPOSED. As it was reported that a number of ] restaurants in Queen Street had opened , again and more were reopening to- | morrow, the. central Strike Committee has asked the Bakers' and Butchers [ Unions to refuse to deliver meat or • bread at the restaurants concerned.