WORK AND WAGES.
THE WAIHI STRIKE. By Telegraph—Press Asa«*aWo». Waihi, Last Night. In regard to the possibility of free' laborers coming' to Waihi, Mr. Parry, the president of the Miners' addressing a mass meeting to-day, said that he had written to the federatiqn asking the officials to interview the head of the Railway Workers' Union, requesting the latter not to carry free laborers. If free laborers came to Waihi it Would be necessary to have an organised campaign to meet them. A reply had beenl received •from Mr. Glover stating that he would interview the union as requested. Mr. Parry added that it would be necessary to have thirty or forty men at the committee's disposal / in the event of free laborers comingf here; also that "the police and military would only be too pleased to put a portion of last Sunday's dinner on the end of a piece of cold steel." A member who has worked elsewhere, but has returned and who had not contributed the 10 per cent, levy, was fined two weeksf strike pay.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 80, 21 August 1912, Page 5
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177WORK AND WAGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 80, 21 August 1912, Page 5
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