TROUBLE IN THE STRIKE CAMP

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1912, 21 November 1913, Page 6

TROUBLE IN THE STRIKE CAMP

; - --9 *- ' There is very ggod reason. to be- ! licve that the professions thf uiji.ty ' which come from the camp of the ■ strike basSeS do'not by-any means fairly present the facts ef the pesi- ' lion. There, has been a growing ! restlessness ancl! distrust amongst ' tho rank and file, who are .getting ' f.irecl of being told how splendidly tho fight is progressing when they | can see with their own eyes that each | clay affords further evidence that 1 the work they have left will be done whether they return to their jobs ; or not. Within the' past day pr two ' this unrest- has caused the leaders, uneasiness and in order tokeep t'Jn'-; men occupied activities in the; way of ? intimiciation and street tleinoristva- , tions have been suggested. The result has been seen in tho renewed disorders. Yesterday a deinonstra--1 ticm wfts to have been made by par-a-ding the streets of the City wit'h_ the women and children of the strikers, but the leader responsible fo tlic suggestion seems to have failed to put in an appearance -at the ap- ' pointed time, and the scheme like so many of the plans -of the strike | leaders failed to materialise, in Ifrc ' meantime work at the wharves goes on apace and trade and business in tho City grows brisker. At the. present rate of progress there will be very few vacancies left to he filled when the strikers come to their senses and realise that like the miners at Waibi they havi? been- strung ' s on by false promises only to be left in the Hireli in the end. A pleasing happening yesterday Was the offer of the Gas Company to assist its rival, the City Camoratioft, ifi the matter -of coal supplies. The very fiiio spirit shown by the Gas Company will tio dotibl be duly appreciated by citizens, and may he taken as-an evidence of the determination of the public to break the tyranny of the gang of imported Btrike-moneers who have sought to make .'Mew Zealand the field for ; their vicious ancl Ruinous methods.