AFFAIRS AT WAIHI.
Waihi, Nov. 8.
The silent tactics of the unemployed and their womenfolk towards the workers were very short-lived. The strain of silence was too great, aud the crowd once more found voice when the dayshift came off yesterday afternoon, and again when the workers went on this morning. On each occasion they “booed” and yelled with great vigour. The police took a firm stand, and in different localities the crowds in the vicinity of workers’ homes were dispersed, mounted and foot police effectually breaking up demonstrations.
Commissioner Cullen arrived by last night’s express. It is understood from the management of the Waihi mine that only about sixty more miners are required at the mine this year. Probably these will be available during the next fortnight. Men numbering about 250 coming off shift this afternoon marched down the mine road into Main Street. An open passageway was made for them, and as they passed along one section indulged in “booing,” while others cheered. At the bottom of the street the men mounted the brakes and were driven home. Hitherto the brakes drove on to the mine property, where the men embarked.
AT HUNTI/V, NEW UNION’S PROGRESS. HUNTI.V, Nuv. S. The secretary of the Waikato Miners’ Union applied at the ..lines Office to day for a copy of the pay dockets, to which he held he was entitled under section 100 of the Coal Mines Act. This was refused, on the ground that the men were not working under the Arbitration Court award. A circular issued by the organiser of the new Union states that such rapid progress has been made that an agreement has been arrived at with the company whereby every man now starting work at the mines has to sign on with the new Union, and in a few weeks an award will have been arranged. The new Union provides for liberal accident and benefit funds, and legal methods of settling all disputes, in virtue of which it is a position to compel the Coal Company not to recognise any other Union.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1021, 9 November 1912, Page 3
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346AFFAIRS AT WAIHI. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1021, 9 November 1912, Page 3
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