THE UPHEAVAL IN ADELAIDE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1003, 19 December 1910, Page 7

THE UPHEAVAL IN ADELAIDE.

STRIKERS DETERMINED. BEER BARRELS ROLLED BY HAND FROM. BREWERIES.

TROOPS AND POLICE IN FORCE

By Telegraph—rress Assoiiiation-Copyrlglit. Adelaide, December 17. Both sides in the drivers' strike express great determination not to give in. Tho men say the whole of their demands must be acceded to. Order has been restored in the streets, troopers and,police having been drawn from all parts of-the country. Several carts and wafjons have-been driven. No attempt was made, to molest them oh account of definite instructions being given to the police to prevent interference.

The employers held a meeting and decided not to grant a further conference until work was resumed.

An unusual incident occurred at a West End brewery.. Large numbers of' barrels of beer were rolled to different hotels. The secretary of the Liquor Trades' Union threatened to call 'out all tho men, but the rolling continued.

Sir-. Pcdier, organiser of the Drivers' Union, states that there hf.s not yet been a conflict with the police, but the police are getting very irritating; and if this continues there will bo trouble. Their present attitude; he declares, is bound to cause riots.

Some of the employers who agreed to tho demands are now withdrawing- '

■ The Commissioner of Police stated in an interview that the police could not interfere with the strikers .releasing horses from vehicles unless actual violence was resorted to. Tho AttorneyGeneral states that -this is quite incorrect. '

The Premier (Mr. Verran), speaking at Port Adelaide,'declared emphatically that law and order must prevail. Ho was determined to maintain tho honour and reputation of British subjects in South Australia.

. The strikers have rejected tho masters' latest proposals for a settlement.