Some Queries

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 88, 22 November 1912, Page 5

Some Queries

TH£ WAIHI "FINAL. ,,

There are a lot of things want explaining regarding the final at Wa.ihi. If Evans shot the constable, who, according "to the Press Association, immediately fell down, how did the constable club Evans ? Did he do it before being shot? Anyway, how came the constable in the front, rank of those who raided the Miners' Hall was he in plain clothes?' Then, if in the interests of order in the town the strikers were not allowed te congregate -in the streets, as per the affair of the "riot" and before, ljow eomes'it that the scabs were allowed to congregate, particularly just in the position where they would irritate the strikers, and why were the police not there in fofce? How cqines it that there are bruisers in the. ranks of tho scabs—wrs it to work ? " ' -i When scab labor was first introduced the police were said to be in full control of the situation,, and a large number of strikers were jailed. The police were thick upon the eeeae. With the ranks ef the strikers thinned dewn by the failings and departures, and the ranks of the scabs augmented te euperier strength finehidJßg. I Wjeve, a criminal element), the police were not there. Either the police were never a.ble to control the situation, which says that th<i strikers were very golf-controllfid, or else they have deliberately neglected to cpntro] when the mine-£nynerts had got in sufficient qf th.c strike-smashing element. We can only conclude o.]ie, way or the other. If the strikers were self-cen-trolled, why the jailiiißS? lithe police wore not in control the strikers were It all points to the action of the Government in the mine-owners' interests whichever way it is looked at. P.S. —1 note by Thursday merHJfig's news that the mjiie.-Q.vin.crs are already

showing their appreciation of the ecatoi The brake rides are off, and they have now got to use their legs, and walk to and from work-—Yours, etc., ; OBRISTCHUBCHIAN.