POSITION AT HUNTLY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1951, 7 January 1914, Page 6

POSITION AT HUNTLY.

; ;, :v;;:; mine re-opened; --p''';■■'■' (By TcJojrapli,—Pfes3 Association.) ■ ' ■ ■' ■ - „ , Auckland,.January 6. ■ Thirty-five members of the.-., new Huntly" Union responded to tho morning whistle, these, -together , ' with'the men previously at work, bringing the total number now working to well over one hundred. The 35 men; who wore all members of tho old union, iacludo in their ranks miners, truckers,., surfacehands, and mechanics, miners being in the majority. .. At an early.hour this morning, mounted police—"2 in number —paraded in front of tho police station. They were then divided into sections, »nd took tip varioua posts throughout the township. ■■ By this time,' pickets had assembled in very largo numbers, and parties had distributed themselves at various vantage points. Tho firet squad of six workers was assigned for a largo crowd of pickets to follow. . Tho police, however, kept the crowd well in hand, and tho workers, without molestation, reached tho Extended Mine, from the pithead of which flew ..vllio..;* Union Jack. ■'■■.' '.':■ . :'■■•"■ "':'' :)'■■' "': : ' As time went on, and each batch of workers, under police escort, made for tho mino, pickots s numbering somo 2CO, began to congrcgato on the , road butsida tho Extended Mine.'-: ; .j. On '.oho or two occasions, the police "were'obliged to drive tho crowd back,.but no one was. hurt in any ■way,w;s ? :W.;;a!)Out'' : : :a; quarter to eight apnrty of;six;.work'ers, on arriving at the. , miiiF?|.vrero"-hoot«cl by the crowd outside The police thpji set but. in oarnestito , disperse the crowd, and, by eight o'clock,

hardly ono of tlm;;stri);ers iwns on thoscene. They assembled at: tho'Minion office, and, ai'tor , giving three."cli Mrs for solidarity, quietly Svf'At. ten o'clock a dcputiition, consistingJof tlio president of the old. union;y.liflf.secretary, anil two'members ,-■ of tUic.Striku' Committee, waited on the-directors, and it is'understood, '-asked-' , - , fod-j- reinstate- , inent: They-'expressed>i their willing-; ness fc orcturn. to .workluiHleijthe-.terms of the new .'agreement;* providedCthat, no , discrimination" ' ; was\ fply of the directora • is i; lipt^yotr'ayaU-