WAIRARAPA CONTINGENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1913, Page 4

WAIRARAPA CONTINGENTS.

Some ill-advised and ill-informed persons aro endeavouring to arouse public sympathy for the Wellington strikers by making it appear that an army of young in on have been sent to the city from the rural districts with bludgeons with which to crack upon tiie skulls of the watersiders, and thus bring them to subjection. This is un entirely false and erroneous assumption. The young men who have nsen to the occasion and volunteered for service in the city have clone so at the request of the Commissioner of Police, who hais stated that it would be impossible to resume work" ou the wharves unless a force of mounted men were. ' present to protect fee labourers against the violence of those who refuse to work. The force is not an aggressive one, nor is it intended for militancy. There aro thousands -of men and wo- | men wlioso lives are in jeopardy ' through the holding up of the public services by a handful of men without a, legitimate grievance. Surely it is in the best interests of the public that those services fihould be restored H Surely those who are willing to serve the people and save innocent women and children from starvation ; should be protected against the assaults, and invective of the mob! ft is to offer this protection alone tßa"fc our young moil have proceeded to the city," and "every-patriotic citizen, every man possessed of the true instincts of a Britisher, will Wish them v'God speed!"