THE STRIKE.
_. ~ o POSSIBLE AUSTRALIAN DEVELOPMENTS
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE IN SYDNEY.
MORE INTERFERENCE WITH SHIPPING.
DUNEDIN STRIKE COMMITTEE ARRESTED.
57 WELLINGTON RIOTERS SENTENCED.
WORK PROCEEDING QUIETLY.
The most important news this morning is from Australia. A long and secret conference of transport and other unions was held at Sydney on Saturday, presided over by tho Hon. W. M. Hughes, to consider the attitude of these unions towards the New Zealand trouble. The conference adjourned until to-day. In tho meantime, Mr Hughes having shown by some comments on the New Zealand strike that he was only half-informed of the facts, the Employers' Defence Committee at Wellington have sent him by cable a summary of the facts of tho strike, with a request that ho giv© the message to tho Australian Press. Two more vessels for New Zealand wero held up in Sydney on Saturday, but one eventually got away. The members of the Strike Committee in Dunedin wero arrested on Saturday on a charge of intimidatory conduct. In Wellington two rioters were sentenced, and the Chief Justice made some interesting remarks on the situation. Work at the various ports on Saturday proceeded smoothly. " Details of the organisation of the proposed permanent corps of "specials" in the Auckland province are published.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14837, 1 December 1913, Page 7
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