WAIHI STRIKER UNDER TRIAL
•AUCKLAND, 12th February. At the Police Court to-day a federatiopist named William Gaynoi- ' was charged with having on 13th January last used abusive and insulting words and threatening behaviour on the. Auckland station, >vhereby a broach of the peace might have been occasioned. Senior-Sergeant Matthition, in stating his case, said that tjio occurrence was an echo of the Waihi strike. On 13th January a number of Waihi men came to Auckland to attend the funeral of a friend. Messrs. Martin, Ritchie, and Sullivan, who had played i^romiiient parts in the strike, Avere "walking along the platform prior to the departure of the Thames train, when accused (an ex- Waihi striker), accompanied by 30 or 40 men, apparently wharf, labourers, came along, and Gaynor approached Martin in very threatening attitudes, saying: "You dirty scabby mongrej.! You'd come down here to bury a fnend would you? 1 ' There was danger of it disturbance, but when the police arrived Gaynor had /disappeared. The crowd, however, was infected with the old fever, and continued to call out "Scab" and "Mongrel" uitfil the train went out. The case will be continued to-morrow.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 37, 13 February 1913, Page 3
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191WAIHI STRIKER UNDER TRIAL Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 37, 13 February 1913, Page 3
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