RAILWAY CRISIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 885, 8 May 1903, Page 2

RAILWAY CRISIS.

OPINION OF CONSERVATIVE PAPER, By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. MELBOURNE, May 7. With respect to the railway crisis, the Argus says that the public approve of the action of the Government, and that it ns beyond doubt Parliament, will also do so. ft also ■says that it is beyond question that tlie Opposition must unite with the Ministry to maintain the authority of Parliament. A general meeting of every branch of the Railway .Society will he held to-night. The decisions of the Executive will determine the course of action. The President of the Amain gated Society states that if Parliament passed a law prohibiting tion, the men would observe if, though under protest. They relied on Parliament recognising the justness of their contentions. There is no doubt the ringleaders of what, the Premier terms “ the revolt ” are Executive officers of the Engine-driv-ers’ Association. What they decide to-night the others will follow. It is understood that a measure will be submitted to Parliament forbidding tlie affiliation of railway unions with the Trades Hall.

GAZETTE .SUMMONING PARLIAMENT. UNITY. AND DISCIPLINE OF. MEN, By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received 1d..3 p.m., May 7. MELBOURNE, May 7, A Gazette lias been issued summoning Parliament. Each of the forty members of the. Executive of the four Unions has received tlie notice referred to yesterday. There is the utmost secrecy among the men. An order issued by the Executive that, they were not to talk about the crisis lias been obeyed in a manner which is a revelation of.,their unity and discipline,

SYMPATHISERS IN DUNEDIN,

Per Press Associati m. DUNEDIN, last night. At a meeting of the Trades and Labor Council it was resolved, “ that in the opinion of this Council, the action of the Victorian Government in their attempt to deprive the Victorian railway servants of their civil liberty is unwarranted and reprehensible, and against flic teachings and experience of an educated democracy, and the Council urges the railway servants to resist such steps to the utmost, iu the interest of liberty, and true citizenship.