WAIHI DAY BY DAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 38, 8 October 1912, Page 7

WAIHI DAY BY DAY.

DEMONSTRATING. WORK COMMENCED AT THE GRAND JUNCTION. (Per Press Association.) Waihi, October 7. Non-workers and women in different parts of Waihi were early astir. Long before the hour for starting at the mines, knots of people assembled in places where they expected to sec workers. Women with perambulators were also in evidence, arriving with others from the outskirts of the town. Groups gathered in the street opposite the Central Hotel, in the vicinity of the Railway Station and at points along the line of route of the Waihi Company’s Awakino tramline. Refreshed by Sunday’s rest, the women turned up in greater numbers, the chief points of attraction being the foot of the company’s No. 2 shaft, the mine road leading up from Seddon street, and the company’s railway crossinfi, opposite the No. 5 shaft. The vicinity of these places was occupied by large crowds, the numbers being much greater than on Saturday, and, as has been the case latterly, women were in the majority and took a much more active part in the demonstration than the men. 'Ais soon as the vehicles containing the workers hove in sight ,the women sprang into activity. A chorus of “boohooing” emanate from them, and as the vehicles passed mixed expressions of feeling were manifested by different factions.

As the company’s brake with thirtyodd workers crossed the street, a number of well-known loyalists cheered heartily.

The whistle at the Grand Junction Mine sounded this morning for the first time since the commencement of the strike. Several men responded to the call. They are to be engeged at the power-house. The workers at Waikino are having an easy time with the, pickets. They ;are in a vast majority, and frequent billiard-rooms and other places of resort without let or hindrance., When the pickets enter a billiard-room and see any workers there they, retire, and life; is becoming so monotonous in the now- busy Town ’that tidy' hi?c anxious • to get dot 1 of 'it. ’ “ ! ; ’ h ij- h sam too. — : —sxva.-uS) «>•■/.' ['> : .vMOHB>HNEORMAT£ONS f LAID. | . ,-■■■wMr ’■-eb'urfsß urn- ftoi.UmilU. Twenty-four informations have been mpsrtm wi tithe recent demonstrations. A man named Meagher was arrested this morning on a charge of using ohfp d j, The’ following official j’<was ! Supplied-tte-day-, by the; union :—“The ! additional number of infeir who 1 rehulned Work is of "whom six l ,;ire < actual underground, workers, making the total number of miners-who nave started since Wednesday seven. Another four men 11 'have 1 had underground experience, but are prevented from working below fordiealth reasons. Seven members of the union have started, of whom at least two are uniinancial. An additional number have been drafted in from Waikino, but these are not an accession to the actual strength.”