FEDERATION OF LABOUR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 69, 14 November 1912, Page 6

FEDERATION OF LABOUR.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, November 14. Parry telegraphed to the headquarters of the .Federation of Labour to-day for funds “to make provision for the women and children driven from their home by the free labourers breaking into homes and threatening their lives. The men were forced into the bush.”

The Federation is releasing all the men from Mount Eden to-day, as there

was no other way out of the difficulty at present. The Federation executive lias sent a telegram to tho members of the Miners’ Union at Waihi, urging them not to seek employment there, and states that strike pay will ho maintained. “Police terrorism will he made known, for the dastardly outrage made on liberties which it is and the facts will be rammed home. Your fight will live. Truth will triumph.”

The executive has also sent all federated unions in New Zealand and Australia a telegram stating that terrorism reigns in Waihi. Strikers are compelled to hide in the bush for fear of their lives and ‘scabs’ breaking into their homes. American methods are adopted by the police and employers. Only thirty members of the Union at Waihi “scabbed.”