THE WAIHI STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 77, 17 August 1912, Page 4

THE WAIHI STRIKE.

To the Editor. Sir.—l have I'Piiil your leader in today's issue, and I am exceedingly sorry to find tlmt my efforts to induce you to tell your readers the cause of Uitv Waihi strike have so far failed. When. I wrote on the 7th, it was with a view of making it elear to your readers that the miners were out for majority rule. Now you have used up a good part of" your column and yet,have not admitted the correctness of my contention, nor said I am wrong; nor have you given any other reason for the 3trike. 1 sincerely thought I was discussing the subject with an able and qualified contestant. Instead, I find that you have evaded the main points in my argument, and: say that i am suffering from "moral;, obliquity," and even write a special; article on that subject. Do you really believe that your readers care a rap if a solitary atom of the community is suffering from that complaint and that it wants to hud it out through your paper?" Then you conclude by withdrawing the accusation you think I object to, and. provide another which means about the same thing. I would like to see from your pen the reason the miners struck.—* 1 am, etc., "TENAX." 14/8/1-2. ["Tenax" knows perfectly well that the strike was precipitated by an orderfrom the, union leaders, who arc not: disposed to accept the secession of the engineers. The men were unwilling to. strike, but their loyalty to their misguided leaders led them into the present trouble. If the strike is such a righteous attempt to vindicate a principle, we should be glad if "Tenax" would explain, why so many of the labor organisationsof the country—who are always vfilliinyto help their fellows—have declined to | recognise it in any snape or form?— Ed.,. | Daily News.]