AFFAIRS AT WAIHI.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1002, 28 September 1912, Page 3

AFFAIRS AT WAIHI.

Waihi, Sept, 26

A deputation consisting ol delegates ot the new Union, to be registered under the Arbitration Act, waited upon representatives of ihe Waihi Company, and LUe Grand Junction and the Waihi Extended Gold Mining Companies this afternoon, and received a definite assurance that the present rate of wages will not be altered pending the drawing up of a formal agreement registered under the Arbitration Act. Members of the deputation keenly resented the assertion of the Federationists that their Union was the Company's Union, asserting that the new Union was formed solely on their own initiative, and was their own Union. It is about xoo strong, and it is understood that this number will be largely augmented by the end of the month.

Mr T. Walsh, secretary of the Auckland Council of the United Eabour Party, addressed the new Union at Waikino on Wednesday on the benefits of the Arbitration methods of setting disputes. Perth, September 27.

The Perth Industrial Workers’ Union has decided to levy sixpence a week on members tor the support of Waihi strikers. Whangarei, September 26.

At a public meeting at Kiripaka, the following resolution was adopted : ‘‘ That this meeting ot Kiripaka workers demands the immediate release of the Waihi strikers in gaol, whose only crime is loyalty to their own class. This meeting also congratulates whole heartedly the militant spirit displayed and the fact that they pieferred to be thrust into prison rather than submit to the machinations of capitalist hirelings.” A meeting ot the Miners’ Union also carried the following resolution ; “ That this Union has every confidence in the Federation ot Eabour, and is prepared 10 aduere to any decisions regarding concerted action on which the Federation may decide.”