THE STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 November 1913, Page 6

THE STRIKE.

"SPECIALS" FOR THE CITY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WHANUAREI, Last Night. Twenty-fivo "specials" have started for Auckland on horseback. It is expected that they will he augmented to one .hundred en route. All steam services have* been stopped. Flour and sugar are almost exliausted. The stoppage of sea mails is causing great inconvenience. LI VELI EK. SCION KS AT WESTPORT. WRS'LTORT, Thursday. Westport presented a. livelier appearance to-day than lias been customary since the strike, owing to the arrival by the early train of 110 miners from Denniston. • The object, of their visit Was to prevent the hunkering of the s.s'. Kaitoa, which was expected from Greyniout|i. Tho vessel failed to put in nn appearance, but thes.s, ])efondor, from Hokitika, with timbers-arrived on the scene for bunker coal to enable her to proceed to Lvttelton.

A crowd gathered at the staths, and protested, and finally the captain decided to leave for Wellington to lay up the vessel and got away all right. Late in tho evening, when the Genprnl Labourer*' Ltiion was holding $ uO'd went round that the Kaitoa had arrived, and the meeting quickly dissolved to assemble at the waterfront. They found the Defender had returned, owing to stress gf weather. These were the only incidents of note of to-dav.

AN APPEAL TO JOCKEYS. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Before the racing commenced at Ellerslie to-day there was a persistent rumour that the strikers would prevent certain horses' from, starting. This morning pickets visited the residences of the boys engaged to ride the Animals in question, but after the position had been pointed out to them that under the Rules of Racing at was compulsory,for tho boys to fulfil their engagements, the leader of the pickets gave his assurance that no attempt would be made to prevent the horses from racing.

AT LYTTELTON. THE HOBSES LAND., LYTTELTON, Last ,NigM, Lyttelton is quiet. Great interest was takeft in the arrival of the racehorses on the MaunganTii. Pickets were out in large numbers, 'but they did not piolest those doing the vrtloading. A biograph operator was given j evmission- to take pictures, and the pickets kept the space in front of. the camera clear. Press photographers 1 ' were and a Times photographer was caught and his plates exposed. 1 The horses went on to Christchureh at midday. Five more firemen on the Maori "gave notice at 10 o'clock this morning. I ho Maori lays up in the stream this .vt'teinoan, the ferry passengers transferring to the Maamganui including several for the Athenic. BEFORE THE COURT. VARIOUS SENTENCES. WELLINGTON, Last Night. A number of persons arrested during- yesterday's disturbances were brought before the Court this morning, aiid sent to gaol for twenty-one days, fotr using obscene language in Bunny Street. Agnes Udall, Charles Johnson, William George Cook ell, Alexander Cheesjnan. arid George Johnson, cJiarg- j ed with taking part in an unlawful assembly, were remanded until November 12th. The women and two men, were allowed bail oti condition that they behaved thcnsevles in the meantime, and did not go near a crowd. William Johnson, charged with assaulting Senior-Sergeant Drew with a piece of iron, was remanded until Wednesday next. John Troy, also charged with assault, was likewise remanded. Henry Edward Moore, a tram motorman, and Hugh Collins, a, young clerk, who got into a heated argument .during the Featherston Street trouble, and resorted to fisticuffs, also ca-ne before the Court. Moore was fined £3 or 14 days' imprisonment, andi ordered to be handed over to the naval authorities, as it was stated he had deserted from H.M.S. Pioneer two years ago. Collins was remanded on bail. A CLEVER RUSE. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The Federation of Labour officials ' stated this afternoon that the Prcsi- < dent had telegraphed to the Executive \ of the Strike Committee at Lyttel- ' tcfij ui&tfacting it to take steps -wl i ensure iihat the horsesi were landed \ there without molestation. J

| Thirty-two horses, were shipped on 1 the Maunganui. Towards the end of the- afternoon, a, special train brought the n in to tho Lambton station, and tho boxes wero shunted on to the It ail way wharf, alongside which the steamer was berthed. After the horses were loaded, the vessel went out into the 1 and the crowds about tho adjacent streets, evidently thinking she had left fa" Lyttelton, dispersed. Then she came in to the Queen's wharf, .shipped her passengers and mails before the crowd realised the ruse, and got away.

APPEAL TO THE "SPECIALS."

AND THE REPLY

\ A printed circular, alleged to come ( from wives of the waterside workers,' I lias been circulated amongst the special muunted constables from tho country districts, urging them to go home. Tho following reply has been sent on behalf of the special constables to the Women's Strike Committee:— } "Wo aro quite clear as to whether, or not wo have been deluded by the shipping companies*, and also as to the question of freight on our produce. "On these points we do not want advice from the waterside workers' 1 wives. "We aro n'dt here to baton and bludgeon anybody, and if the workers care to keep the peace we will not break it, "But wo are liere to see our pro- ; i duce safely on board the boats, and ' to maintain law and order, I "Regarding our treatment of woI men and children, just calmly consid--1 or the kind of language and insult we have so far put up with from those women and children (we suppose they are workers' wives and children), and I think you will admit that we have at least exercised considerable for- ) bearancej and obeyed orders. "We have no personal quarrel with the workers, but we will see. this thing through. As for your protection to the station —thanks for ti,„ insult."

> LABOUR DEPARTMENT ACTIVE. ■ t (Received Nov. 6, 10.10 a.m.) I SYDNEY, Nov. G- ) ' For some days the Department of , Labour has been in close touch with > the leaders of the Labour Unions with <a view to possible prevention of fi crisis in Sydney through tile NewZealand strike. The Conciliation officers are inquiring. PROBABLE CRISIS IN AUSTRALIA. • (Received Nov. 6, 9.50 a.m.) | SYDNEY. Nov. a. A, decision not tb work New Zealand steamers was reached.at a meeting of the Wharf Labourers' Union * held with closed doors, r The secretary of tile New South :• Wales branch of the Labour Fcdera- ■ | tion of Australia states that the situaI tion will be reviewed at a meeting 1 of the executive on Saturday, at which delegates will be present from Sydney and the Northern, Southern, and Western coal fields and Victoria. While the Federation is desirous of avoiding an extension of the trouble | they would speak with no uncertain ) voice. One thing was certain —there would be no backing dawn \on the resolution carried at the recent' son-» ference not to handle any "black" cargo. This would apply more particularly to members of the Amalgamated Railway Tramway Association, one of ten big organisations within the Federation, The Herald says the New Zealand strike is typical of the extraordinary futility of the .methods of a certain section of Socialists wherever they obtain control and attempt to apply a remedy for any grievances the workers possess or as a means to any parI ticular end which they wish to attain. They have already produced a holdup of the whole export trade of both Islands and fliave jgot. thoj coiin [try marching upon the towns, caused riots not without same bloodshed, and now"have apparently .succeeded in affecting Australia also. We trust the Australian workers will take thought and note the methods of the Federation: EFFECT IN LONDON. BUSINESS MEN ANXIOUS. | LONDON, Nov. 5. Business firms interested in New Zealand are becoming increasingly uneasy dn account of the strike. ■ Commercial risks are being insured in London at 7s 6d per centum for three months, covering damage to property" owing to the violence <>f riotW.