WATERSIDE WORKERS’ STRIKE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1164, 28 October 1913, Page 4

WATERSIDE WORKERS’ STRIKE.

POUCH CONCENTRATION. HACKS IN DEMAND. Wellington, Oct. 26. The concentration of the police at Wellington is now in progress. The men are arriving from the country districts of the Wellington province. Twenty policemen arrived by the Wahine this morning from Christchurch, under Sergt. Bird, and by to-morrow’s trains from Wanganui and Napier districts another score are due to reach the city.

Twenty more are expected to arrive from Dunediu ou Tuesday morning and a further detachment from Invercargill and other southern towns as soon as they can be got here.

No police are being drafted from Auckland as the authorities there have in mind the possibility of it being necessary to concentrate the men iu Huutly. Commissioner Cullen has issued an appeal to citizens who possess hacks to lend them to the Department as it is deemed essential to mount as many ot the police as can be provided with horses. OPEN-AIR MEETING. A large crowd of stiikers held a meeting iu the Post Office Square this afternoon, when addresses were given by leaders. Subsequently, headed by the Watersiders Band and accompaied by a large crowd of the public, the strikers marched in procession to the Basin Reserve, application for the use of which had been refused by the Mayor. On arrival the big gales were found to be locked- A few straggled in through the small gates and others scaled the fence and then the big gates were broken open and the crowd surged in on to the Basin where the meeting was proceeded with. Once iu it is reported the men behaved quietly.