THE STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 November 1913, Page 6

THE STRIKE.

CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD.

A METHODIST RESOLUTION

HASTINGS, Last Night. At the Methodist Synod of the Hawke-s 'Bay-Manawatu district, the following resolution was passed .*•— That this Ministerial Committee of Synod, while sympathising with all the just claims for the better industrial conditions, deploro the present unrest and intensity of feeling being displaced by parties to a dispute, and calls upon members of the church to give themselves to prayer that there may be a speedy and righteous settlement, and fuller recognition of the Christian brotherhood.

ANOTHER ARREST MADE.

PRISONERS BEFORE THE COURT

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Last Night. W. T. Young, President of the Federation of Labour, and Secretary of the Wellington branch of the Seamen's Union, was arrested this morning on a charge of sedition, and brought before the Magistrate's Court.

Semple, Holland, Bailey, and Eraser also appcaibd.

At an early hour the court Avas packed to its utmost capacity. A largo body of mounted and foot "specials" accompanied by the regular police, guarded all approaches ami entrances to the court. Others lined the walls of each side of the court room with drawn batons. -

Mr W. G. Eiddell, S.M., presided. Young's ca.so was called lirsfc. Ho was charged with using seditious words at tho Bason Reserve on Sunday, when ho said : "If the police force is coming to suppress us wo will undertake to mass ten or fifteen thousand armed men ready to protect themselves as • armed men. If the police use batons we will give them ono hack."

He was also charged with, 011 the same date, inciting persons to resist tho police, and was further charged with inciting persons to commit a breach otf tho peace. Mr Organ appeared for the accused, •and applied for bail. This was granted in his own surety of £2oo and two sureties of £250 on the indictable offences, hut was refused 011 the summary charge. Ho was remanded for .r< week.

temple, Fraser. Bailey, and Holland were each charged a,s already stated. The fai£S_ were brought separately, an<3 all flv»3 -'<• •. remanded foi' a wdelij . ... Bali was refused Seinpic ;uk] Holland, and was not applied for in the cases of Fraser and Bailey; Holland, when charged, dramatically stated that ho did not iutond to plead.