NOW HOOTING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 7

NOW HOOTING.

THE NEWEST PHASE AT WAIHITRIALS PROCEEDING. . GROANS FOR " LAW & ORDER." PARRY ARRAIGNED. (By TclcEraph.-Spccial Corrcspondtnt.)

Auckland, September 17. Willi the strain of the Cuurt proceed- , ings matters arc assuming a noticeably graver aspect. Open hooting is being indulged in for the first lime, ami tho position certainly grow uglier day by day. A deputation of .seven wives of tho strikers who preferred to go to gaol rather t.lmn find sureties of Jill) to keep the peace for twelve months waited upon Commissioner Cullen iu tVaihi this afternoon to urge tho claim that, as no strike pay would bo available, to support tuck strikers' wives and families, tho Government should undertake to do so. The Commissioner informed the .deputation that he could make no such undertaking, It is understood that the funds of tho local charitable aid board amounted to precisely 10s. about ten days ago, and it is known that their income was completely cut off wlicn the gold levenuo ceased with the strike. The Government undertook to see that tho,hospital should be maintained when the 'i;.c;sition was placed before it at the beginning of tho strike,.but charitable aid is tnother matter. Tho statement that strike puy would not be paid to the wives of the strikers in gaol has been confirmed by union officials.

OUTSIDE A THEATRE. Objectionable exuberance uy strikers is to be quelled in another direction. Because a parly of engine-drivers attended Jiayivurd's Pictures on a recent, evening die inineis on strike definitely decided to boycott the show, and, lor scveiil night.in succession, largo miml>nrj of nrim>rs have lined the footpath in lront of tin theatre—silent, but obvious obicctors to the patronage of the entertainment with- ' in. Lately, however, the former tule of silence has been broken, and )en f.ud women audibly apply the. term "scabs" If many of those entering the theatre. It hut been n frying and irritating exiierieiieo fei disinterested citizens thus to be compelled to run the gauntlet of unreasonable men nnd hysterical women, and the proprietors' business interests arc being affected. Orders have now been issued that the. practice of lining the footpath opposite the- theatre must.be stopped, i THOSE GROANS. Patrick Schollard ami James Doel, who yesterday refused to find sureties of tho peace when bound over, were entrained for Auckland early this morning. A parly of about thirty—including women, young fellows, and men—assembled .it the station to give them a wnd-off. ' At 2.10 p.m., as tho Wakatore tied up to the ■ jolty, a crowd numbering about 300 had assembled, and about 250 of them were waterside workers on • the wharf. Tho ' prison van, in charge of Sergeant Rock and four constables, wns waiting to convey tho two strikers to gaol. The prisoners wei'e among the first,to step down the gangway, and, immediately "' they stepped on to the wharf, one of the waiting crowd of walersiders called for "Three groans for Capitalistic law and order." Three loud groans followed, and , then someone called for "Three cheers' for the prisoners," and these were given lustily. Three cheers were then given for. "The Federation of Labour." The watcrsider who called for them adding: "Tho federation isn't beaten, and isn't likely to be." Further groans followed against the Massey Government. Tho two men stepped quietly into the ran, and were, driven away to Mt. Eder. gaol, whoro already eleven of their companions are incarcerated. As soon as the conveyance had disappeared, tho crowd nielted away, most of the men going back to their work on tho wharves. WAIKINO QUIET: Waikino has been very quiet during the past few days, and there has been no attempt at following lately. The number of labourers employed there is now about seventy, and more are announced to-day. A batch containing about twelve experienced workmen, who certainly do not come under tho union's frequent and contemptuous category of "old mejc and boys," has arrived in Wdiki. Nc inoro has yet been made to start operations, but there are grounds for the. belief that arrangements are steadily l»ing made to collect a usefully large party of ■willing workers. ' , TIRED OF THE LEVY. There was a poor, response to the final appeal for the 2s. levy imposed upon the members of the Auckland Tramways union, and which was collected at the different depots on Friday last. Tho collcotors did their best to persuade the mem- . bers to make the final contribution to the fund on behalf of tho strikers at Wnihi, and the loeked-out men at Reef ton, but all the persuading was of no avail, as the members were tired of the levy. As far back as some weeks ago it was thought (lint the strikers had a hopeless (ask in". ■ front, of them. It is slnlod definitely that had the union not decided to stop the levy ■ the payments would have stopped in the course "of a few weeks as the members ' have become more nnd more dissatisfied-, and there have lwen refusals to, pay every week since the levy was decided upon by (he union.