"SCAB!"

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1673, 13 February 1913, Page 4

"SCAB!"

WAIHI STRIKE!?. UNDER TRIAL.

(By 'fcitgraph.—Press Association.) Aucklnnd, Februnbry 12* At tho Police Court to-day iv federationist named William Gaynor was charged with having, on 'January 13 last, used abusive.and insulting words and threatening behaviour on the Auckland station, whereby a breacli of the peace might have been occasioned, ' Senior-Sergeant Mnttliieson,. in stating his case, said that the occurrence wns an echo of tho Waihi; strike. On January 13 a number/of Waihi men eamo to Auckland to attend tho funeral of a friend. Messrs. Martin, Ttitchie, and Sullivan; who had played prominent parts in the strike, were' walking along tho platform prior- to the departuro of the Thames train, when acotised (an ox-Waihi striker), accompanied by 30 or 10 men, apparently wharf labourers, came along, and Gny'nor npniwrhed Martin, in very threatening attitudes, saying; "Yon dirty, seabby mongrel! You'd come down hero to bury a friend, would'your" There was danger of a disturbance, but wren tho police arrived Gnynor had disappeared. The crowd, however, was infected with the old fever, nifd continued to call out "Scab" «nd "Mongrel" until Hie train wont out. The case- will bo continued to-morrow,