STRIKE LEADERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9707, 1 February 1910, Page 5

STRIKE LEADERS.

STRONG RESENTMENT SHOWN.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright, Received January 31, 10.20 a.m. SYDNEY, January 31.

The various Labour organisations throughout the Commonwealth have condemned the imprisonment of the strike leaders, Messrs Bowling, Butler, Hutton, and O'Connor. Mr Lonsdale, a member of the State Assembly, was about to deliver a lecture at Kurri Kurri in aid of a local institution, when one of the audience called attention to the fact that Mr Lonsdale supported a Government which had done all it could to crush them, and had sent their leaders to gaol. - J.'be audience thereupon quickly walked out leaving the chairman and the lectureTalona in the building. A GREYMOU'IH PROTEST.

GENERAL STRIKE ADVOCATED,

By Telegraph—Press Association, GREYMOUTH, January 31.

A demonstration and mass meeting was held in Greymouth on Saturday evening as a protest against the effect of the New South Wales legislation and the imprisonment of Mr Peter Bowling and three other strike leaders. The State Mine Band headed a procession through the town, and speeches delivered from the band rotunda The following resolution was declared carried unanimously :

"That we, the workers of Grey and district, enter an emphatic protest against the brutal action of the Wade Government in making a law whic h practically annihilates the liberty of free speech and the industrial organisation of the working class, and, further, if occasion arises, we will advocate a general strfke throughout Australasia, making the injury to one an injury to all." A collection was taken up on behalf'of thejjatrikers, women going from shop to shop with money boxes.