BRISBANE STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10553, 8 February 1912, Page 5

BRISBANE STRIKE

BUSINESS RESUMED CITY TURFECT CONTROL. (Received Last Night, 8.30 o clock ) ) * BRISBANE, February 7. All is quiet, and fairly efficient train and train services are, running. Business has been largely resumed, and many big. houses report that a Wo percentage of employees- have, to particularly women and girls. ~ , . Mr Denham, the Premier, clams that threequarters of the workers are back at work, but Mr Coyne, President of the Strikers' - s-1 putes this, and declares that ,those who have resumed are not Unionists. Ke points to th© : fact that warehouses where men are employed, wharf hands, carters, barbers, theatres an<l other trades are still idle. Detadiinents of special police con- • tinue to arrive, and the Government j consider that they are in a position to cope with any possible developstrike leaders are confident of j a peaceful victory. HOTELS TO BE OPENED. re-xn&tatement Of- employ - •ELS. MUST BE GUARANTEED. TEST MATCII, BOYCOTT. (Received Last Night, 9.30 o clock.) BRISBANE, February 7: B r is .reported -that. the Union ifisecuuve, as well as the Premiet, asked that military be sent, but wa'. refused. . The Railway Commissioner states .thai only three per cent, were traffic j men ouF of fJie three nundred an-1 seventy who struck in the city. One j hundred have resumed, and some ! others have asked to be. taken hack, but have been, declined, and . their places are. to be filled. v ; ; 4 . fTne government has decided to- air low the:hotela to by way of att' ei-' gennfent. '":; r The tram: ; s«*vices to-day 'extended to "the outer suburbs. - " As a result of' fromT&©veral, mounted police that they an'] their mounts were stabbed with ha 4 - •pins, an order has been issued, barring the use of hatpins in the crowded "streets. Some special con'stables were utilised at the. wharves in unloading 'timber, and performing' r o€her duties. "The- wharf . labourers strongly resent this, and at a meeting, decided to •bake steps 'to prevent specials from 'blacklegging, pacifically or otherwise^

My Coyne, addressing a mass meeting of strikers at the Trades Hall, Vaid that they must not think that a compulsory conference would rerv•edy all' ills, and it would probably prove' abortive, and things would be ■ n as you were." Referring to the "threat of. employers not to,re-engage strikers,; he declared that the Strike CJommittee; had decided that no' ; man tor woman shall return to work. ,»ill 'justice is assured. All the troubie "Would not be settled till every employer gr-aranteed- the reinstatement 'of every eirployee. ' ,ThefT7nited labourers' Society ha«s asked 1 t-lip* Melbourne Trades Hall to boycott the Test matdbif Maelaren irrfays. .because he uad acted as a 'special constable in Brisbane. ,Reports from the country indicate 'that the Strike is steadily spreading.

it most of t! e railway extension works, the men ,iave "downed tools, ' following the example of Brisbane. The hotels in the various. strike .centres are .Closed. f