PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 80, 20 September 1912, Page 5

PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE.

BEADY FOR CONCERTED ACTION.

(By Wire.) HUNTLY, Monday. The following resolutions were •unanimously adopted at a fully representative ! meeting of this union held yesterday:! To the Prime Minister: ''That we, "the members of tho Waikato Elinors' Union, in special general Hireling, ■clcprt'Cato the action of the Govern menu of New Zealand in sending bodies of | police to Waihi and WaikJno with, we believe, the avowed intention of coercing and harassing .hitherto generally swjjro-itaed peaceful strikers'., with the result that IJ. of our fellow-workers who have, in our opinion, rightly refused to provide bonds' to keep the pence have been incarcerated in jail. AYe rail on | jo\i, a,s members of tho producing class j ■who 'have been promised a square deal, to revoke tho unjust sonienc.es passed an<l liberate our follows; and wo request an investigation of the police faction at Waihi." To Waihi Miners' Union: "That wo .wholeheartedly contra tula to and ti.ppt'r- ,- ciate the splendid militant .spirit of our fellow-workers of AVaihi/ who, rather i than submit, to ihc machinations of | capitalist hirelings denyinp; IJiem recognised praetiecw of striking workers, prefer to be thrust into prison cells." Also following motion: "That, being in ©rtice accord with Waihi miners, we pledge our adherence to the Federation ,of Labor and are prepared to adhero to any decision r« concerted action. 1 lr.it the F.L. may decide."—DUNCAN. Some American millionaires are said to bo able to raise two millions sterling by cheque nny minute. Tho men who can nu'sn families on two pnuuds R. week aro greater linancicrN.