THE TIMARU STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10507, 20 December 1911, Page 5

THE TIMARU STRIKE

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS THREATENED.

fßy Telegraph — Press Association.) TIMARU, Last Ndght. : When the waterside'worker® struck last week, followed by the railway casuals who receive ifaer cargo in the trucks, the permanent railway hands' were sent to take the places of the latter in discharging the s.s. Annerley. The permanenits protested agadnst having to receive cargo from a. Chinese crew, and asked Mr Oraigie to wire.the Premier, wlio did so, they wiring the Miiidister for Railways and the Railway Servants' Executive. The result of the wire to the Prenndeir was am, order that \peaimmient railway meiii should not receive cargo from the- Chinese crew; consequently the ship was idle for a few days.

Mine© 'has instructed a local) firm of solicitors, Messrs Perry and Kirmeniey, to commence proceedings against Raiiihvay Department for damages for the detention ci' his 1 vessel nv consequence of the action of tflia Department. Gaptain. Mace has also written to the Premier, protesting against his action in interfering to prevent the Railway Department from doing its 'duty as a common' carrier in dis-idliar-ging Iris ship, and also that no reply had been given; to his telegram of The i2th inst., asking that arrangements, be made, to continue the railway service.. hi shipping a Chinese crew and paying them European rates he lilad broken no law, and. "he. had yet to learn; that New -Zealand is governed not by tTie law pf the land, hut hy the mse~TTixit of its' Prime 'Minister." As his- owners luad suffered loss and inconvenience, "he would seek from the courts, of the Dominion the justice whMi had been denied!* by tJlie Prim* Minister and his Oafbandt."

Tflie s-.8. Anmerley is expected to lea.ro for Melbourne with a part eai'ga of Orejjdn. timber. -