To-Day's Strike Story.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10924, 13 November 1913, Page 6

To-Day's Strike Story.

IN THE NORTH.

Leaders Under Double Guard. Sentries Ordered To Fire If Need Arises. Auckland Wharfer Says Specials Rode Him Down. t Found Unconscious by Sailors and Taken to Hospital. Union Secretary Who Stopped Pickets May Be Summoned.

EXHIBITION MEN BACK. CAISTEIIS TIRED OF STRIKE. [Prji Pkess Association.] AUCKLAND, November 13. Work is proceeding on the waterfront again this morning. " Seventv moil returned to work at tlu\ Exhibition buildings and Wonderland. The largest carting firms state that a good number of men returned to work to-day. . '

NO CHANGE. . GOING BACK TO WORK. UNIONS MEETING. (By Telegraph—Special to ",Btar.. ) AUCKLAND, November 13. (1 p.m.) The position in Auckland does not show any great change, though it is generally hoped that an end# to the strike is in view. Four hundred, men are at work on the waterfront, and 100 carts are carry-

ing goods to and from the wharves. A good many carpenters Mid. plumbers ar© working in the suburbs. Forty carpenters have gone back to work at the Exhibition, and 30 are at work on Wonderland. Four hundred, out of the 500 general labourers in the City Council's employ, have also gone back to work. It is believed that the attitude of the "Star," which is regarded as a paper sympathetic with labour, in urging the strikers to realise that they are sacrificing themselves in a forlorn hope, will have a far-reaching effect. Meetings are in progress. to-day at the Trades Hall to consider the position. Whether these Unions decide to capitulate or to stiffen the men up remains to bo seen.

It is stated on good authority that a summons is being issued by the police against Tom Long, a Union secretary, for obstructing pickets in their work.

TO SHOW CAUSE. A dozen taxi-cab drivers came before the City Council this .afternoon to show cause why their licenses should not be cancelled for refusing to drive special constables. . " RIDDEN DOWN." STRIKER'S AJ,LEGATION. SAYS SPECIALS STRUCK HIM AND RODE HIM DOWN. Early yesterday evolving a young, waterside worker named Williams was found lying unconscious in the^Domain. Sailors who found hint got him on to a cart and hurried him to the Trades Hall. There he was put into a taxi and immediately taken to the Hospital. On the way, as the car was crossing /■ o Grafton bridge, ho regained con-, sciousness. and was able to say that the specials rode him down, and when he retaliated, turned upon him with thenbatons and bashed him till he fell again. The Hospital authorities report this morning that the man is well enough to be discharged during the dayi STILL ON STRIKE. The Auckland Seamen's Union has reaffirmed. itt> decision to remain on strike.