TREATMENT OF "SPECIALS."

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14839, 3 December 1913, Page 10

TREATMENT OF "SPECIALS."

ALLEGED BOYCOTTING

Carious stories still continue to come In as to tho treatment of "specials" in isolated instances. In one well-known suburb from which several special constables volunteered, there is a store and tea rooms on tho tram line. "Specials" riding through sought refreshment. They were refused by the storekeeper, who gave as his excuse that if ihe sold to them he wonld suffer from the tramwaymen. One of tho man's customers, himself amounted "special," found it difficult to believe the story, and so went with a number of comrades, remaining in the background unseen. The "specials" were again refused, and tho customer then came forward and asked why they could not he served, and if he, a customer, would be served? Tho storekeeper said ho would serve him, but not the others, as he dare not do so on account of the tramwaymen whose business ho said was more valuable to him than that of the residents of the suburb. As the residents of the subarb include the parents and relatives of a great many "specials" they are now considering the position as set out by their storekeeper. •

It is reported that the Christchurch Strike Committee has amalgamated with the Lyttelton Strike Committeo, and that all books and documents have boon removed from the city to the port. Arrangements are eaid to have been made by the Strike Committee for a camp of strikers in the Fendalton district.