AN INCIDENT OF THE STRIKE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2719, 14 December 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN INCIDENT OF THE STRIKE.

A most singular incident in connection with "the great strike," fays Truth, seems to have been reserved for a kind of epilogue. I refer to the interestiu-j series of documents in which Mr Norwood has reprimanded the Chief Commissioner of Police for his mode of discharging his official duties. Tho complaint, I gather, is that Mr Norwood and what ho calls " my committee " did not receive sufficient moral or physical support from tho police to enable them to play their games (that is, I believe their own expression) of starving the dockers into accepting the wages which Mr Norwood and " tny committee " consider sufficient for dockers. Considering that then? arc 30,000 or '10,000 dockers, and only thirty or forty of Mr Norwood and his committee, and that the former have as much right to tho assistance and support of the police as the latter, this complaint undoubtedly shows a more sublime incapacity for appreciating facts than anything which has proceeded from Mr Norwood and his committee in the whole course of the struggle. Mr Munro appeals, I see, to the judgment of the public and his official superiors. As one of the public, 1 hasten to assure him of my cordial approval. I consider myself, in common with some live millions of Londoners besides, largely indebted to Mr Munro for tho fact that this striko has been got through without a riot, which would have set the whole five millions of us running- for our lives. Tho Rotterdam i polico havo kindly afforded us an illustration of tho kind of the thing that Mr Norwood and "my committee" were looking 1 for. Let any reasonable being imagine the results had tho dockers' demonstrations been charged once or twice on the Trafalgar Square principle. I daresay that Mr Munru has iu one or two instances put tho blind eye to the teleBCope The truth is tbnt every man in hi* portion ought to hare a blind eyo for us* on Kueh oooasioni.