RENMARK "REIGN OF TERROR."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1124, 11 May 1911, Page 5

RENMARK "REIGN OF TERROR."

• $ ' STATE PREMIER'S INTENTIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Gopyrieht (Rcc. May 10, 11.35 p.m.) Sydney, May 10. Mr. Verrsui, the Premier of South Aiis(ialia, who is veiling Sydney, in an interview, referred (o the Itenmaik labour troubles. The policy of his Government, h<! .said, was straight for compulsory arbitration. He had no sympathy for unions ihat professed revolutionary tactics. The Government intended to introduce a compulsory arbitration Bill, the. principal provision of which would be to mako every union and 'every association of employees register under the new law. Once Parliament says (hat 'all industrial disputes must bo-decided by law, then the striker will be treated in the same way as any other law breaker. Tho Government did not fear legitimate unionism, but the leaders in the Reiimark dispute were men with revolutionary intention!-, who had made no secret of their opposition to labour. ORCHARDIST'S ALLEGATIONS. The South Australian Chief Secretary's offices were filled to overflowing by a deputation which waited on him'on Thursday of last wtek to request sufficient police protection at Renmark. Many members of tho U.L.U. were also present. Mr. Peake, Leader of the Opposition, said he wanted to draw attention to the alarming condition of things at Renmark. 'There had been incendiarism, attempts at murder, and to poison troughs, inflicting injury, not only on men, but on dumb animals. Mr. Herbert Phillipps, president of the Employers' Federation, said that at Renmark intimidation and spoliation had been practised, and they saw those things being allowed to go on without material check. There was a growing conviction that the only way of obtaining protection to life and property was for tho citirens to take their dtfenec into their own hand?. Ho specially claimed assistance for the people of Renmark. No sooner were those growers ready to harvest their crons than thes? men approached thsm, and said if they did not get such a share of the profits as the men thought they ought to have the growers would not have any harvest at all. They refused absolutely to submit the rentier to any tribunal as to whftt should be a. fair proportion. The growers, however, with that Briti-h pluok which still b«lontrrd t;i the British race, said thev would not submit to such treatment.