TROUBLE AT WAIKINO.
THE POLICE TAKE A HAND. (Per Press Aissociation.) Waihi, September 3. A hundred strikers assembled at Waikino yesterday for tlho evident purpose of intercepting arbitrationists engaged by the Waihi Company for general work, but a force of police prevented any molestation. The police lined up two deep at the entrance of a track running through private property, and. prevented the mob following the arbitrationists. Mr Parry, president of the union, said he would have the conduct of the police investigated, as he was on private business and demanded the rigfbit to use the track. The solid front presented by the police prevented a demonstration, and the strikers retired to the township. Waihi at the present time is almost without police most of whom have been transferred to Waikino, and member? of tho Engine-drivers' Union are having a lively time. When they appear in public tlhiey are followed to their homes by gangs of strikers, but no violence so far has been attempted.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8, 3 September 1912, Page 6
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165TROUBLE AT WAIKINO. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8, 3 September 1912, Page 6
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