WAIHI TO RE-OPEN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1553, 24 September 1912, Page 5

WAIHI TO RE-OPEN.

« ON OCTOBER 2. COMPANY'S DEFINITE NOTICE. (By Telorrapli.-Prcss Association.) Waihi, September 21). An important announcement is advertised by the Waihi Company in to-day's "Daily Telegraph." The company gives special notice to each and every contractor whose contracts with the company on and above- the 1000 feet level are still subsisting and uncompleted, that the mine will be opened for ordinary work on Wednesday, October 2, 1012, at 8 a.m., and that they are required.at such lime and place to continue work under their contract, failing which the company will not wait any longer for the performance of the work, and (lie contract will be cancelled, so that other men may be employed to carry on the work of the mine The advertisement is signed by 11. I', Barry, superintendent. '

WAITRESSES,,.QUIT. HOTEL. , ' \Vaihi, September 23. A demonstration took place outside Sheffield';! Commercial Hotel on Saturday evening. -Mr.-.Sheffield states that oil Thursday night four girls interviewed Mrs. Sheffield, slating they would not work with one girl, a laundress, as her 1 sympathies were not with (he strikers. Mrs. Sheffield replied that she could not bo dictated to re whom she employed, and if they didn't like working with tho girl they could take forty-eight hours' notice. This was accepted, and expired on Saturday night. A report was current that the girls refused to work because they had to wait upon the policemen, but there was no truth in the rumour. .The question of waiting on the police never cropped up. The girls left the hotel on Saturday, and were lustily cheered by a crowd outside.Mr. Sheffield says he has not been put to any great inconvenience by the ovent. Ho is expecting some girls from Auckland in a few days. He also states there was a needlewoman in the hotel waited on by the union executive and cautioned not to wait on tho policemen. WERE BLOWS STRUCK? \ Waihi, September 23. Waikino is quiet and orderly. The arbitrationists go to and from work without the protection of .the police, and without molestation. Work at the smithy and in other parts of the battery is proceeding, and trials of the machinery have taken place preparatory to the resumption of crushing. A number of fedcratioiiists are residing at tins hotel used by the arbitrationists. Outsido Waikino, however, things arc hardly so quiet when the factions.meet. A function at AYuitokauri on Friday night was attended by several ' arbitrationists and feciera tionis'ts. Arguments arose in reference to the strikp, and it is slated that on several occasions during the evening fisticuffs were indulged in. With a few trifling exceptions rendered necessary by the local conditions, the rules of the Thames Miners' Union have been adopted by the union formed at Waikino, which is called the Ohincmuri Mine and Battery Workers' Union. MR. SEMPLE'S OPINION. Auckland, September- 23. Interviewed to-night, Mr. Seniple, organiser for the Labour Federation, stated that the executive of the federation would meet this week in Wellington, to consider the position in regard to the troubles at Waihi and Recfton. No official statement wouid be made until the executivo had discussed the position. Tho federation was pleased to solicit the support of all unionists in its efforts to secure justice for the men in gaol, but wanted it lo be clearly understood (hat anything done would be done through its own organisation, and no outsido interference would bo recognised. Referring to the slulement that the mines in Waihi would bo working shortly, Mr. Scrapie gave it as bis opinion flint none of the miners in Waihi would work in the mines, and ho contended that it would bo found impossible to secure miners in New Zealand In take their places. II would be found thai the actions of the police had strengthened the miners' position, intteail of weakening it. A PROTEST. Pnlmcrston N., September 23.' A resolution was passed by the executive of Ihe Flax Mill Workors' Union on Saliirdav emphatically protesting against the gaoiing uf strikers at Waihi.