Trouble at Miramard

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1914, Page 5

Trouble at Miramard

J: ~,.,,.. MEN'TAIDOFF. " _ *j9 KEUTOMERS THREATENED, ''jffl A; WANTON OUTRAGE. J.Jli By Telegraph.—Press Association. "j§SH Wellington, Last There was great excitement in Msttwfgj mar- this afternoon and evening, to trouble with the men engaged in charging coal from the steam HarfleWglS at Miramar wharf. In consequence the men objecting to the food hy the boardinghnuse-keeper whore thejs?||| usually took their meals, the landlady, ||| refused to continue supplying thcin, an4-||| the men thereupon declared they would |fj| have to have two hours off for lunch, id J! They accordingly knocked off at 1150,wft and did not go back till L3O. The agent* 'J§| of the llarfletc thereupon paid the m*n*i|s oIT at 5 p.m. The result of u conmiitavlJM tion was that the men declared that if '-''M any men came to take their places they, 'T*j| would make things warm for the new-. vi comers. The agents obtained a fresh .;'$ hatch of men, the first to arrive berag.M| met by some of the discharged men, who ?M dared them to start, threats of all kinds of injuries being made. The police wero sj| sent for, and nine men started work,.. \jj* but, as soon as they commenced, tli« "*,M . bullrope on the winch snapped, and two -M buckets of coal fell en to two men oa< . -H deviieath. They were knocked on to tic "wf wharf, hut were uninjured. An examina- & tion of the rope showed it had heen cut • 3 almost in two with a knife. Another, >4 bullropo that wiis lying on deck >»■ -> f found similarly cut in two places. To) '~% protect new hands coining from sergeant and eight constables were sent' i'l from the city, and althongli thcTc rumors of disturbers lying in ambush the men, the latter reached home safely A under escort. ' i.a