SERIOUS STRIKE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1910, Page 3

SERIOUS STRIKE.

TN GREAT BRITAIN

ACTION OF THE GOVERNMENT

POSSIBILITY OF A MOT

("IIY BIjKCTRIC TELKGHAPII— LI'RH PRESS ASSOCIATION.j LONDON, Juno 23. A thousand dockers at Avoimnoutih. have struck in sympathy, wilt'h the Newport men. Wnrohoiisunien and grainnien have similarly struck. One steamer sailed leaving a per tion of her cargo. HOME MEOIMCr.VfIY'S VI,EW. (Received This Dav, 8..30 a.m.) LONDON, June 23. In it lie House of Commons, Mr Winston Churchill, i.ni reply to Sir F. Banbury (Unionist) mid Mr Bona r La.w (Tin ioiiisfc) stated that tiho danger of a riot in conineetion wilth the strike at Avonniouth was so great and the possibility of dealing therewith equally so, that it was temporarily necessary to prevent Messrs Houlder Brothers froan ir. - porting free labourers to replace the Newport strikers. Tho Hon. Alfred LyiHtellton (a former Colonial Secretin-) remarked that tlite o|vposittion did not impeach tilie Home Office for the pouiv..> it had token, but desired to affirm the fact th-at a /temporary risk of riot would n'ot oonstitutp an excuse for making a permanent chance m the law.