LOADING FOODSTUFFS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 21 November 1913, Page 5

LOADING FOODSTUFFS.

CONCESSION BY STRIKERS. AN APPEAL TO AUSTRALIA. ANOTHER ARREST MADE. WELLINGTON. Last Night. Mi- P. flickey, secretary of the Federation of Labour, informed 11 reporter to-day that tho waterside workers who aro out at Lyttelton have decided to unload timber from the steamer Defender at that port, and load her with foodstuffs and find a crew to take her to Westport, to relieve the position there «o far as the food supply is concerned. "This," says Mr Hickey, been done with the consent of" the Executive." The following cable was sent to-day to the Australian Workers' Union, Sydney: "Men solid here. Funds required to fight this battle. Australian workers, help us! Shearers here staying in, and putting in finance. Combined squatters and Massey Government against us." Still another arrest arising out of the strike troubles was made this afternoon, when George Draper was apprehended on a charge of being a party to a riot in Featherston street on the sth inst. He is alleged to have supplied stones and other missiles to persons engaged in fusilading the special constables during the memorable afternoon when the first step was taken to reopen the port by loading horses on the Maunganui.