Kiripaka Lock-out

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 90, 6 December 1912, Page 4

Kiripaka Lock-out

SCABS EMULATING WAIHI.

MAORIS ENROLLED

In a letter from Kirip»k# we' kertt that the scabs thel4 are .commencing tie tactics used by 13i*rr fellows at Waihl. Having got jpraed btift at Whangarei on last Satutfday week some of the kidney retuiHed to Ki*k p'aka and insulted a couple of etrikew , wives, attempting to ride them down and hitting one woman over the eye. When the unionists appeared the leader of the scabs wae getting tne- hiding he deserved, but called for the Maoris and over twenty of them joined in therow, some 6i the few striker* getting a rough HandJifig. The unioniste nave had instruction! from their oftefS riot to oall out "scab."

The scabs hare a of a score of Maoris, who parade eaoh night. We ere informed tihat it only neede a match to fitirt th« fire.