STRANGE STRIKES.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1923, Page 4

STRANGE STRIKES.

|:i;\;.\M* t*!il! SOAP AMI MATCH S.'s. SYDNEY, April 1. a-! r,* In I e - e *i i* lien via b!e rope tali i I’.-; - J lit..-- and iiidu-i i a! irounles. a d tlsev have oceiirred in countless in -Isin* **** i hroiie.li Iriviit! <*:• uses, s -h.so’-, ’ildren >; ruck at a country ■ : ;. o ! ei : !!i,*g ago. iKmueiliiig belter ai -emi ... iaiiuii v. hieh they got A ; ;1 re < -Mini! tile other day totilul .; imil.i me*, inn I u.-etul iii obliging the on ie. eiimply with its tvi.-.lies in ! 1 n i".;l ,i r oi i*iinl l itintiiins- to a <* . . a i* . d v Inch proves unduly e .!. i i i he shire nit in:; to heavy , . • . e.i■ * - i|ii'*!iee of it being a <■ um-etiii.r link l.*etw:eun two imperil joint - ■ (I railway. lee Council i. re.iii s .1 to cense running a sienjn p -lit v. Hii*!' ei i . .i*> a wide river and r place u with a r hot I in lid jiunt.

wiiieh would Imre meant a delay of two hours daily in transporting the stream of motor-cars from the express train each day. The Railway Commissioners were horrified, and the Alinistcr for Local Government breathed dire threats. Hut the* shire held out, and in the end, after a wordy battle, got all it asked for. Hut certain seamen of the .steamer Knight Companion, while in part at Fremantle a few days ago, established something of a record in the wav of strikes even for Australia. Seven members of the crew found theme Ivc- inconvenienced by the want of a few matches and a little

snap. Tin y approached the master of tlic* steamer with a request that lie advance the money for the purchases. The captain declined. Next morning the seven men refused point-blank to work, and the efforts of the captain and chief officer to control them were in vain. The men then went ashore, and stopped away from the ship about one hour..

The matter had an unpleasant sequel (fur the mon'i in the local Police Court, when, on charges of having refused to obev tlie orders of the master, and of having been absent from the ship without leave, cue. Ii had to forfeit four days' pay am! serve three days in prison.