THE STRIKE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 November 1913, Page 3

THE STRIKE

! STIUIiE LEADERS BEEOItE ] THE COUIIT. . [I'EK I'IIKSS ASSOC FACTION. 1 Wellington, This Day. The first of the cases against the strike loaders commenced to-day. The Court, was again crowded and "specials" were on guard both inside and outside, as well as all the approaches to the building. There was a stir in Court when William Thomas Young was called. He was charged with inciting persons to resist the police. Mr 11. H. Ostler appeared for the Crown, and Mr T. M. Wilford and Mr P. J. U'ltegan for the defence. In his opening address Mr Ostler said It seemed to be the opinion that Mr Young was arrested because he was a leader of the strike, but nothing could be more absurd. Everybody was within their rights in being a leader of a strike. On the other hand everybody had the right to work. ■ The speech the accused was charged ; with took place on October 20. Both before and after that date there were scenes of violence and rioting in Wellington. Owing to that the Government took steps to regain the command of the streets, and it was in that connection that the accused uttered the words charged against him. To every fairl hiuking man, and according to , law an inciter to violence was worse than the man who committed the deed. Mr Ostler then proceeded to call evidence. MUIiE LABOUIi WASTED. Wellington, This Day. Twenty steamers are working cargo at the wharves to-day and more labour could have been utilised. The membership of the new Waterside Union numbers 15-10. THE I'USITION ±JS SYDNEY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYBIGHT. [.I'KR i'ItESS ASSOCIATION.] (Kcccivcd This Day, D.OO a.m.)

Sydney, This Day. Mr \Y. E. Parry, representing the .New Zealand federation of Labour, addressed the Sydney Labour Council yesterday. He said the coalminers and watersiders hail been forced into the dispute. For two years the employers had been raising money for the purpose of smashing union ism by means of bogus unions. After the present dispute began the men stated their willingness to negotiate with the employers, but when they met the Employers Federation the men found that the. Premier was on the side of the employers, and they might just as well have a wooden block for a Premier. They Tiad been promised that the special consta--1 bles would not be allowed to promenade the street while the parties were negotiating, but on the first night of the conference the '"specials" were shooting down unionists in the street, in the attempt, as they believed, to intimidate the union representatives. Mr Massey evidently decided in favour of the Employers' Federation before the conference was held. The employers had taken up the attitude that though they themselves could organise in any manner they desired, the workers should not bo permitted to do so. The two delegates interviewed the coalminers and trimmers at Newcastle to-night. The General Secretary of the Amalgamated Tramway and "Railway Servants' Association says there is considerable! anxiety among the members of the Association at Darling Harbour, regarding the possible extension of the New Zealand strike to the Darling Harbour goods yard. A shipment of fruit from New Zealand is expected to-day, but there is no evideuce whether it will be handled by non-unionists or not. The railwaymen are determined not to unload anything declared to be "black." '' Ho warned them not to act on their own initiative, but to consult the executive.