STRIKE LAW.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 November 1913, Page 5

STRIKE LAW.

ON THE WEST COAST. WESTPORT, Last Night. A new phase of the strike occurred to-day, when -what a • local strike leader descried as ''Strike Law" was introduced.

The Anchor Line's s.s. Regulus arrived from Greymouth with a" consignment of chaff, which the vessel had carried on from Picton. On the understanding that there would be no coal cargo obtainable here, the strike committee had subsequently advised that the chaff would be handled, and the vessel came on to Westport, where the received the cargo at the slings,- and others loaded into trucks/that which required for the country, and transferred into the goodshed that required locally. ' A ! It is understood that the strike committee and not the men individually, received pay for the services rendered. The strike committee also advised the produce merchants that any further cargoes coming to hand will be similarly handled, but as there appears to be no prospect of such vessels getting back cargoes, merchants and others do not view the concession as a settlement of the difficulty facing the community, which is rapidly running short of provisions. AIL the horses have been brought out from the Westport Coal Company's mine, and to-morrow the road to Denniston will be stripped of tubs, the Union assisting, in the work. It is rumoured that even if the strike is speedily settled, it wDI be some time before work is resumed at Denniston. .