Badgered Brisbane.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 50, 23 February 1912, Page 6

Badgered Brisbane.

BATONS, BAYONETS, AND

BULLETS.

Thus a Brisbane correspondent: The general strike still continues. But they have tho trains running again by "stab" labor. 'They bate stopped all processions and outside meetings, s._ the strikers aro obliged to hire halls. Men and women have been struck down by baions, and one shot is alleged to have been fired at the police. However, I happen to be acquainted with a lady who was on the scene, and she avows' it was one of tho foot police who fired tho shot, purely to incite riot. A great number of civil servants are lined up on the streets with fixed bayonets, but 1 am pleased to say a great number are locked up in the Exhibition Building for refusing to go out on the streets armed. Large contingents of horsemen aro arriving from the country to guard the town. Sir Donham says he is ''determined to keep the peace and protect people and property." Personally, 1 feel that there is no need for such precautions, as the city is quieter than ever I remember seeing it. For three days they held processions, and for such a vast concourse of people the conduct was admirable—nothing further than a dray or two being obliged to return whence they came after trying to run a hind of trends, and the good-humored singing of T 'Tb.o'Wearing of tho Badge," with suitable words set to the tune of "The Wearing of tlie Green." _ At _ every inciting the leaders gave strict injunctions to (he men to maintain order. They wired every town of importance in Queensland yesterday saying the trouble was over —that the strike's back was l.uoke'.i. Put it is just as solid— more solid, in fact. Both, sides tire determined, and when the strike wiil be over is hard to say.