Prime Minister William Massey’s special constables are in Hanson Street, Wellington, during the 1913 waterfront strike. Most of these men were farmers and farm workers, and their participation in this exercise had been organised by the Farmers’ Union. The violence with which they broke the strike earned them the name ‘Massey’s cossacks’.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Sydney Charles Smith Collection (PA-Group-00242)
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Photograph by Sydney Charles Smith
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