Strikers' meeting at the Triangle, Dunedin, 1913

An ‘agitator’ addresses a crowd at the Triangle (Queen’s Gardens), Dunedin, during the 1913 strike. Initially only the watersiders and shipwrights in Dunedin and Port Chalmers went on strike. They were later joined, reluctantly, by the seamen. The police nevertheless decided to act against the strike organisers. On 29 November all six members of the Dunedin strike committee were arrested on charges of intimidation and bound over to keep the peace.

 See more images of Dunedin during the 1913 strike here (Flickr)