BATON AND REVOLVER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1894, 31 October 1913, Page 8

BATON AND REVOLVER.

THEE VIOLENT COLLISIONS OCCUR. ONSET ON CITY SHOP. ■ CHARGE OF THE MOUNTED MEN. THE .DAY'S CASUALTIES.® ' LYTTELTON WATERSIDERS STRIKE. ( The synopsis of the history ot the Wellington Waterside Workers' strike, and the events leading up to It from the genesis of the trouble till the present time, are as follow:— Friday, October 17.—Shipwrights asked for increase in wages. Saturday, October 13.—Shipwrights ceased work. Monday, October 20.—First mass meeting Waterside Workers' Union, at which it was decided to call a "stop-work" meeting, to be held at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, October 22. Wednesday, October 22.—"Stop-work" meeting •of Waterside Workers' Union held on wharf. While men were attending meeting, which, being held in working hours, was a breach of agreement, other union men were put on to work in their places. Union desired that "stop-work" men be reinstated in their positions, Employers decided that, men's action in knocking off work in breach of agreement terminated the agreement with the union, which had been entered into in 1912. Waterside Workers' Union hand control of strike over to the Federation of Waterside Workers' Union strikes. Thursday, October 23.—Big mass meeting of strikers. Wharves picketed. Union S.S. Company pays crews off colliers. Free labourers commence work. Negotiations between strike delegates and employers fail. Report of Intention of Waterside Workers' Union to register a second union under the Arbitration Act. Speeches in the Post Office ; Square y Friday, October 24.—Scenes of violence on'the wharves, Conference of Federation of Labour delegatos proves abortive. Employers decide to cease wcrk as far as handling cargo is concerned. Fifty police guard the wharves. Warehouse clerks work cargo in small steamers. Saturday, October 25—Further scenes of vilrtonce on wharves. Steamers Defender and Nikau rushed—crews intimidated. Police from country arrive. Employers ; issue a statement to the effect that no watersiders will be employed until a fresh organisation be formed and registered under Arbitration Act. Watersiders decide to continue strike. Harbour Board pickets the wharves. Sunday, October 26—.Mass meeting at 2.15 p.m. In Post Office Square. Procession to Basin Reserve. Gate broken down by crowd. Inflammatory speeches by strike leaders. . Monday, October 27.—Labour Day and a holiday.. Observed by strikers as well as the public. No change in the situation. Tuesday, October 28.—Conference between employers and employees, with Hon. W. F. Massey, Prime Minister, as chairman. More police arrive. S.S. Nikau rushed. All steamers move to an anchorage Irl' tho stroam. Racehorses allowed to leave for south. ;Y Wednesday, Ootober 29.—Employers' proposals from previous evening's 1 conference submitted to the watersiders, and rejected. Raid made on flour and other provisions being sent to Day's Bay by Cobar. Goods subsequently allowed to be shipped. Further violent speeches by agitators in the Post Office Square. Encounter at night between suspected free labourers and strikers at Waterloo Quay. pectcd free labourers and strikers at Waterloo Quay, Auckland and Westport watersiders strike. Thursday, October 30.—Strikers assault special constables, Waterloo Quay, fence broken down and horses liberated. Men of H.M.S, Psyche on.parade. Psyche's stores landed from Ulimaroa by. bluejackets. , Mounted.constables parade streets and charge strikers in Post Office Square. Three hundred special constables sworn in. Onset on Messrs. Whitcombe and Tombs' shop; constabji severely wounded. Prime Minister states the Government's position, Lyttelton watersiders strike.

Three distinct scenes of iiolence, brought on by the strike, occurred in the City yesterday. Tho first was a collision between strikers and special constable's in the morning. The second was a rush by strikers on tho premises of Messrs. "Whit-combo and Tombs in Lambton Quay, about 5 p.m., and, a little later, a charge'by mounted police in another locality became necessary. Tie proceedings were marked by a good deal of savagery.