THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 83, 11 October 1912, Page 5

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3.

Bright and early the strikers and their womenfolk turned up to do their picket duty. The picket Serjeants had

their men under splendid control, and everything went like clockwork.

The police adopted a new method in bringing the scabs to their slave-owners this morning- Instead of marching them per boot, they secured a largo drag from the, stables of Manning, a scab- sympathiser, and drove tho scabs in vice-regal fashion to work. One cab-load contained four scabs, the Heath brothers, and seated with them were about 12 "peelers," and two galloping ahead on wild mustangs—beg pardon, cart-horses. It was a brilliant idea to provide the mounted foot police with spurs, as they act like grapplingirons and prevent the horsemen from falling off. Soma of tlie policemen's spurs turn round and stick in the riders' legs, which is very awkward.

The scabs who wore escorted home the previous evening were brought from the east end of tbe, town in the brake this morning, and picked up the few scabs who were .staying at the Central Hotel. As rhe brake drove up to the corner the constable who was driving gave as good an exhibition of how not to drive as his fellow scab-protectors give of how not to ride.

Two of the 'fitters who had resumed work the previous day agreed not to go to work, but only one kept his *»ord.