THE BLACKBALL TROUBLE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2215, 12 June 1908, Page 3

THE BLACKBALL TROUBLE.

ARBITRATION COURT’S ORDER.

APPLICATION TO SUPREME

COURT.

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June 11. Tlio application made by the Blackball Union to remove the order made by the Arbitration Court (directing the individual members of the. Union to nay the fine imposed on the Union)’ into the Supremo Court, eamo before His 'Honor Air. Justice Denniston this morning, and was adjourned to enable all the members of the Arbitration Court to he served with the necessary- notice. The Union is moving to have the order quashed on the ground that tilie Court had no power'to make it.

WELLINGTON WORKERS’ PROTEST. -

ACTION OF GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED.

Press Association. WELLINGTON, June l'l, . Several hundred workers, the majority being wharf laborers, gathered round the' Queen’s statue, 'opposite the General Pest Office, at midday yesterday, to protest .against the action of the Government in distraining on the furniture of the Blacball miners. The following resolution jw.is passed: “That this meeting of Wellington workers expresses its sympathy with the miners of Blackball, whoso household goods were seized and sold at the instigation of the Minister for Libor, in default ofpaymont of the £75 fine inflicted upon the members of the Union for their act of striking as a protest against the victimisation of their, comrades because of their political opinions. We workers of Wellington express our disgust that a so-called Liberal Government should resort to such oppressive and coercive measures against the workers of New Zealand, when such Government has utterly failed to provide proper legal protection against victimisation. We call upon the working classes of New- Zealand to sink all tlheir little differences and combine and organise so that at the next general election they shall voite solidly as a class, and exclude from office “ the persecutors of, their comrades on the West Coast goldfields.”