OPEN LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF WAHM MINERS' UNION.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 70, 12 July 1912, Page 7

OPEN LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF WAHM MINERS' UNION.

Gentlemen, —I have heen approached by some of your follov.-\\o.a< is with the object of forming a new Miners' Union, to be registered nn;h r i he Arbitration and Conciliation Act of Now Zealand. As I am adverse to seeing two separate Miners' Unions existing in Waihi, 1 have adopted tins method of asking you to meet -together and take an honest- and secret ballot on the question of registering your union under the New Zealand arbitration law. I hope jou will see that this in the best way uut of the difficulty in which your strike has involved the Federation of Labor. Your leaders have told you thai they desire to confine the strike to Waihi. I think my proposal a seasonable one. and will postpone any action on my part ponding your meeting together and discussing it. I can assure you I am serious in this matter, and that if a new union has to be formed it will not merit tho term scab union, but will be a union of free and intelligent men, who desire to act under thc laws of tbo country they live in. It will probably inohi do some of the best men from among yourselves, and they will act solely in tho befit interests of tho workers: of this community. lSoing honest men. they are propared to enter into and keep igreemeiits that they sign, and they will not be drawn into further trouble at a moment's notice. —I am. tiontlc.mon. E. N. DA VIES. AVaihi, June 24, 1912. Union Jack's Advertisements in Waihi "Daily Telegraph."