THE WATERSIDERS’ STRIKE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 48, 28 October 1913, Page 6

THE WATERSIDERS’ STRIKE

OTHER WORKERS’ SYMPATHY. [Per Press .Association.] ■ Palmerston N., October 28. . The Mafiawatu Flax Workers’ Executive this morning passed a resolution congratulating the • watersklox's • ontheir solidarity, and offering any assistance in their power. In response to Police Commissioner Cullen’s appeal for horses, it was decided to offer to provide the watersiders with horses 1 . Sympathy was also expressed with the Huntly miners.

HELP FDR THE STRIKE BREAKERS. '

Feilding, October 28

A gang of about 80 farmers and their sons and others is being organised here to go to Wellington'to work on the wharves. It is considered that 700 men can be got from the Manawatu district for the purpose. COAL WORKERS AT AUCKLAND DOWN TOOLS. Auckland, October 28. Three hundred men employed in the discharge of the various vessels which recently arrived with*coal struck woik at 1 pm. There are more coal cargoes in the port than for a long time past., The men who struck assort that the coal is being pushed to AVellington, Waihi, and elsewhere to the detriment of a successful issue of the AVellington strike, and they refuse to

handle it . < I DUBLIN TROUBLES. ■' THE STRIKE POSITION. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association, i (Received 8.30 a.m.) London, October 27. Larkin’s influence in Dublin is waning, and the situation is becoming more hopeful. Leading employers and leading trade unionists have agreed on a formula based on the immediate resumption of work and the recognition of the union, which undertakes to hold a ballot before another strike. It is likely the formula will be generally adopted. . IN THE NAME OF RELIGION. Extraordinary scenes continue on the quays and railway stations. The Catholic Young .Men’s and Hibernian Societies’ pickets turned back some parents with their children. Some Englishmen who wore sending their children to England were mobbed and ' the children wrenchd from them. The 1 crowd held up a cal. containing two women and three children. The * mother of the children mounted the ’ driyer’s seat, brandished a rope, and produced her marriage certificate, and ’ was then allowed to proceed.

LARKIN SENTENCED. FOR SEDITION. (Received 11.30 a.in.) London, October 27. Larkin lias been found guilty of uttering seditious words and sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment. He challenged several jurymen on the ground that they were prejudiced, and others were chosen.