THE WAIHI TROUBLE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1460, 7 June 1912, Page 4

THE WAIHI TROUBLE.

■ I The ministerial .order to t-hft i.al.our Department to proceed wit I) tin? > ■Kcg.istra.tipu of the \\ aihi Engineers and Win(ii!i's' Un.ion will relievo the.j public mind. There certainly was.a| risk. that Mf fcvunENSfjx' iiught l tiling it politic; to .throw the new | union io the Wolves by ordering the refusal of registration. Ifc is clear,' however, f'roni his reply to the. Fed.-. era!ion of Labour's deputation yes- ■ terday, that his sympathies are with the Federation ;on this point, and that ho wets constrained by the Crown taw Ofii.cp- He. improved tlsu .occasion by telling the deputation ■ that •''mankind was rising up against. .• econpmic injustices under which it had laifoured for ages,'' and that lie:' "believed that stupendous charges were i.ii prospect." Baulked of ;i'ts ■ immediate (inject, the. Federation could not have wished for any better solace than this. If Jin. Lauren^- : sox were, not aware that lie will soon cease to l)e A Minister of the. Crown, I he might have spoken in another strain. He might have told the Fed- ; eration that, its motive was tyrannical. In the meantime. there is no ; new development in Waihi, and the Federation has before it now only . the problem of how to save its facs, ■ if it can.