BROKEN HILL STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 321, 12 January 1909, Page 3

BROKEN HILL STRIKE.

iBALL REFUSED MANX AXD OTHERS Sydney, January 11. Bail was refused Tom Mann and the other arrestees. i Another load of provisions was taken to the mine yesterday, no attempt being nude to block it. i During Saturday's riot the police captured the flag which was earned in the piocession. The men recaptured it, but the police again secured it. i Several persons on Doth sides were jW wounded, but none were seriously mjured.

OFFENDERS BEFORE THE,COURT. AN IMMENSE JJKOWD. POLICE USE THEIR BATONS. j Received 11, 9.47 p.m. ," Sydney, January 11. At the Broken Hill Police Court to- !" d.iy, lorn Maun and 27 others were j 1 ; charged with unlawfully assembling to--3 gel her and taking part in a riot. >;' They were remanded for a week, :. bail, lo the extent of £2OO each, being f, allowed. The Mayor bailed out Mann i" villi suielies were found for the others. * On individual charges of stone-tlirow- """*■". cl oi assaulting the police and ushig indecent language, all were similarly re- ■•, luanded, bail being fixed at £lO. An ii, immense crowd gathered round the *. courthouse. * The press of the people \ lnoke down the gates. The police used ? their batons to drive the crowd back ( and restore order. One arrest was £ made. £■"> MINE OWNERS IN CONCLAVE. fc{"* Received 12, 1.15 a.m. Melbourne, January 11. Proprietary mine directors K lengthily discussed in camera the quesE ; . ' tion of submitting the trouble to the |*'t r- -tlley are awaiting further information from the general manager of the mine before coming to a decision. TOM MANN'S TIRADES.

' In a recent speech, following up his tirade against the unjust working conditions at Port Pirie, Mr. Tom Man's ' again attacked the industrial situation. He said that So per cent, of the people of Australia belonged! to the proletaria't, •iwhctjier they liked it or not. In no ! 'other part of the world were workers . exploited as were the workers of Broken Ulill, 'He (Mr. Mann) knew of workers at Port Pirie who, in response to a notice put upon the Proprietary works, stating that anyone having 4 suggestion 'of value to make should drop it in the box and he should be rewarded, had ■made a suggestion to the company, which proved of considerable value. The man was still alive, hut he was not •working. He was not an old man. His suggestion brought ia certainly £20,000 in direct advantage to the company; he received £ls. He was now unable to work, and had to clear out. This poor, decrepit man was practically killed i>y the infamous conditions which prevailed. Hie physical strength had been exploited, trad his brain also. It was "the bounden duty of Port Pirie and 'Broken Hill men to continue to oppose Reductions. Only one change ought to 'he made, and that was upwards. The proprietary cared nothing for a living ■wage. . It did not run on those lines. It bought its labSr in the cheapest market possible. These were Australian up-to-date conditions. The shareholders had every conceivable variety of luxuries —their country bungalows, their city mansions, their motor cars—all coming from the works. Mr. Delprat said, "I must do what ray board tell me to do." •Hisvboard represented those now rolling in luxuries at the expense of the workers-. .What was the good of their organisations unless they used them to achieve something? They paid their fees, their levies, but was that to be*

all! He urged that all the mining -centres in Australia—Cobar, Hlawarra, 7" 'Newcastle, West and North Tasmania—--1 Should be brought together, organised, to-related, exercised, disciplined; then they could formulate their demands and get them. They could then get their -■*■ 44 hours—their six hours if they liked—anything in reason, with united action.