BE PREPARED.
MR SEMPLE AND TOLICE BATONS. APATHY OF THE GOVERNMENT. AUCKLAND, Last Night, Speaking at a mass meeting at midday Mr Melrose denied that the men discharging the Tofua were members of the Harbour Board's permanent staff, and asserted that they had .refused to d<n so, with the result that thirty of them were suspended. Mr Semple said the Government had made no attempt- to settle the strike, except by allowing the Hon. Mr Herdman and the Hon Mr Allen a free hand. In Wellington 1100 batons had been distributed by the authorities, which was regarded as an incentive to violence. The watersiders were averse to violent methods, but evidently the Government thought the strike should be .settled by batons. The men would resent having their skulls cracked. The best plan was for the strikers to quietly manufacture their own batons and be prepared. -
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 October 1913, Page 5
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145BE PREPARED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 October 1913, Page 5
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