POSITION AT HUNTLY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1597, 14 November 1912, Page 5

POSITION AT HUNTLY.

MEETING OF MINERS. ~ THE FQftHAtflON .OF THfl p^. • (By Telegraph.—ti-cs's Association.)" ■■ ' Auckland, Npvetota "13.. : 'Jho Hufltly ■ co.rrespori.dent of. an Aucfe land. jfcper telegraphed this morning .as Vosfc. .Semple,:Wo]it ) ..,ani Eraser arf, rived yesterday niorniiiß ' frpin Auckland, and Messrs. Wes.ley, Richards, tad Ken-.' n'ecly iroin Waihi. •' ...... ~..-„,:■ At a. special nie&tinff.o.f miners .address?: ed by thOse.deleßates last night,the Waihi-i delegates inveighed'.bitterly against .the." treatment meted oiit to thb.. of Waihi, and attribiited tlie : troublo'to. /the presence of the police in thfl ptin, ,; It was current. talk: in town 'yesterday that steps. we.i;e. : to- ho taken.at-tnis.; meeting in'connection with- the calling of ; i iv general strike, lint beyond , ' the.' fact. thai n general strike w.ns "talked of at! tlie'meetihgi no news ..lias yej leaked, out.; Tlio whole of tho -delegates ■ ltett by the , ' late train last night after, the .meeting, being escorted to tho station b.y a. nu'.'mbsr of miners cheered the .Federation, and its' leaders as the. train left. ' ' ■ . It is Undo.r.st.ood the delegation is'Bo'ijicto Wellington ijn'd , the avoiilance of Waihi at Such a critical tinip by Mr. Semple is' Syotcing acrid' comtflent from even his .own followers. .' - ■ ~,'■ ■The organiser ;bf the new union .is. iri. ■; Waihi tt.nd the hdtihg^epretar} v irfAucki-" land,, so progruss js slo}y; in tho' meantime. , . Both are esnftcfad:.to return even in a few days, when "njotters 'are to be pushed., .■■■•: Wiih&rer fhe'.-«aso.ii'. the visit of t-hp | delegation li.er.ts yesterday has nddecl to l the sitiiation s tenseness: Jiickii.iK' for soin.e . time'past. Tho formation of the new union necessarily leads tfl ~ bitterness, which is carried ereu into this dpiivam of sport. All classes in the •comnisiirit.y : wish' to. gee epme kind of defi.hi.to settle- . ment as tho state of susjonsj is Tory , trying- inbusih.esslflattfers, makijii* people afraid to risk capital in. any eniCerpriso..,