THE STRIKE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 82, 6 December 1913, Page 6

THE STRIKE.

AN EXCITING INCIDENT.

AT THE AUCKLAND STATION. December 6. An exciting incident occurred at the railway station previous to the departure of the Main Trunk express last night. Twelve seamen or firemen were leaving for Foxton, apparently to work a vessel there, and a strong party of strike pickets assembled and surrounded the carriage containing the workers, and a lively flare-up followed. The guards and porters, on learning of the disturbance, ejected the pickets from the carriages to the accompaniment of jeering and menacing, behaviour. The police were summoned, and a constable appearing, lie was received with hootings. He pushed his way through the crowd and ordered the pickets off the station. Where he met with resistance he used some force and intense excitement prevailed, the strikers keeping up a running fire of taunts and hooting of the seamen and the constable. It is stated that a few blows were exchanged, but nobody was seriously injured, rocks. STRIKE FUND DONATION.

WAS THE PAYMENT LECAL?

INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS.

Wellington, December 0. A matter of great importance af« fecting unions registered -lnder the Industrial Conciliation ami Arbitration Act wll be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The Wellington Typographical Union recently voted £IOO for the wives and childien of the watersiders row on strKe. The Court will be asked to determine whether it is within the power of ;i union to make such a grant out of union funds. It is believed to ho the first case of the kind argued in New Zealand, and, following on the Osborne judgment in England, is a matter of great interest to trades unionists.