SEAMEN'S STRIKE.
POLICY OF TERRORISM. By Telegraph—Proes ABgociatioTi—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 24, 11.1,5 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 2-1. The water,siders arc holding a mass 1 meeting to-day to discuss the strike 1 situation. , The crews of nil inter-Stato and ! coastal vessels arriving yesterday gave . notice. I MELBOURNE,. May 24. j The strike lias spread to tho wheat ( stacks at Brooklyn, where tho unionists ; drove tho loyalists from blur yards. '■ All work, including tho shipment of wheat, for tho Imperial Government, is suspended. , . Tho policy of terrorism is spreading. Three more loyalists wero severely handled and tho liomeo of several others attacked. A hundred special constables have been sworn in. The Federal president of tho Returned Soldiers and Sailors’ League sent a message to members emphasising the necessity of abstaining from active participation in any industrial dispute, and calling on members to support constitutional authority and to maintain law and order.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12638, 24 May 1919, Page 9
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153SEAMEN'S STRIKE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12638, 24 May 1919, Page 9
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