A SERIOUS ASSAULT

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 5 December 1913, Page 3

A SERIOUS ASSAULT

AN AGITATOR HUSTLED.

Wellington/Thursday Max Wolfe, on remand, was to-day charged with having assaulted Joseph Kileolly, a 'special" constable, causing him.actual bodily harm on November 27. Evidcnc) showed that Kileolly and another " special " were having drinks in Barrett's Hotel. Accused said. "Take that, you scab," and threw a beer glass, striking Kileolly on the cheek and inflicting a sevare wound. Accused was committed for trial. Hail was allowed in £100 sureties

NO BOATS FROM MEL-

BOURNE

Melbourne, Dec. 3

Tho wharf laborers' boycott of New Zealand has become serious. Tue lluikkvt- Parker line has abandoned the usual Christmas pudding trip, Some 5,000 tons of pudding and fruits lie untouched on the wharves. There has been no boat for New Zealand since November 5. Consignments for New Zealand are stacked on the wharves.

EMPLOYERS PLEDGED

Wellington, Dec. '4

A further statement issued by the Emnloyoiv,, Farmers, and Citizens' Defence Committee relating to the nre-'Q.t industrial trouble, savs that the committee has collectively and individually pledged itself to the elimination of the Unite .i Fad Tition of Labor, its officers, ? n 1 representatives, from mmy f iture negotiations wi'h unions of workers.

DUNEDIN SEAMEN

Dunelin, Wednesday A meeting of the Dunedin Seamen's U.'iion was held this afternoon to consider the position of the branch in ivgarl to the present trouble. The proposal to take a secret ballot on the question of whether they should resume work was Defeated by an overwhelming majority, only 17 voting in favor or the proposal on a show of han Is. A "discussic n ensued on fie methods of tho Federation of Labour, which were general')' condemned. An ultimatum was received from the Union Steamship C:i, stating that if work was not resumed on Saturday, it woild take steps to have the ves?)!s manned by free labor. It is stated on good authority that the meeting will appro ch the Union Company with a v'ew to securing the services of hi; Honor Mr Justice Williams as arbitrator on the position wlrch has arisen' between the' soaVi and the company.

Auckland, This Day A number of amateur firemen and seamen joined the Maheno's crew yesterday. The vessel sailed for. Sydney last evening. A number of mounted ' specials' left Auckland yesterday, reducing the force of mounted men to about 400. Nearly 1000 members of the new waterside ' workers union have been enrolled. All restrictions placed on the hotels during the currency of the strike has been remo'ved. The Auckland strike committee agrees with the suggestion that the whole dispute should be referred to Sir Joshua Williams. The tramway union held a meeting yesterday to consider the question of giving financial assistance to the strikers, and decided to donate £200. A prominent Syndicalist agitator, Charles Reeve, who secured a berth and boarded the steamer as a passenger before the Maheno sailed, was roughly pulled from his cabin and forced down the gangway, along the wharf, and finally cast off. The bitter feelings of resentment which culminated in the attack upon Reeves, have been rankling in the minds of the special constables for a long time past. These feelings were engendered principally by the man's public utterances, which were in keeping with the professed .creed of thel.W.W. What is said to have chiefly angered the ' specials' is the suggestion Reeve is credited with having made, that strikers should march into the country and wreak their vengeance on the farmers' wives.