THE STRIKE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 November 1913, Page 3

THE STRIKE

THIS MOItNING'S EVENTS. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, This Day. No attempt has been made this morning to bring , the Alhenic alongside the wharf. li is understood that the authorities are awaiting the completion of the formalities, necessary for the registration of a new union under the Arbitration Act. The Italian fishermen this morning distributed a big catch of Hsh free to the strikers. The strike committee, in (lie course of an official statement regarding yesterday's rioting, said that most of ihe demonstrations against the specials came from Ihe general public. The committee claimed credit for preventing many of the public ailackiiig (he constables on the way back to tho barracks. The playing of ilic Waiersiders' Band also i\\v\v attention from the specials. Bui for such intervention there would have been much slaughter done. The committee also adds thai if has been informed hy a number of specials thai (hey weiv brought lo 'Wcllingion on false pretences, statements having been made lo them ihat I heir produce was being Ihrown into-ihe harbour', and ihat residents were garrotted and terrorised.

OMINOUS IM'MHLI.YOK

[E I.ECT 1! I(' T K LKG K A V ll, CO L'YK Ui 11'1. , . ]

[PER I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.] (deceived This Day. !).5(1 a.m.) Svdnev, This Day.

A decision not to "work New Zealand steamers was reached at a meeting of the Wharf Labourers' Union held with closed doors.

The secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Labour .Federation of Australasia states that the situation will be reviewed at a meeting of the executive to be held on Saturday, whereat delegates representing Sydney, the .Northern, Southern and Western coalfields, and Victoria will meet. While the Federation is desirous to avoid an extension of (he trouble it would speak with no uncertain voice. Une Uiing, there wff[ be no backing down on the resolution carried at the recent conference, not to handle any "black" cargo. This would apply more particularly to members H' the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Association, one of the ten biu , organisations within the .Fed-

cnilioii. The Herald says : The New Zealand strike is typical of the extraordinary futility of the methods of a certain section of Socialists adopted whenever they obtain control, and the futility of the attempt to apply them as a remedy lor any grievances the workers possess, or as a means to any particular end they wish to übtain. They have already produced a ho!d-up of the whole export Hade of both islands, and have yot the country niarehinii , upon the towns, causing , riots, not without some bloodshed, and now apparently they have succeeded in alVcciin.n' Australia also. We trust Australian workers will lake thorough note of the methods of the Federation.