THE WAIHI STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 98, 11 September 1912, Page 5

THE WAIHI STRIKE.

A MORE lIOPSFUL OUTLOOK. By Telegraph—Press Association. Waihi. Tuesday. Since llic advent of ail adequate force oi police, the condition of affairs at Waihi ami Waikino has become almost hormal. Arbitrationists, gling to and from work at Waikino, are not now interfered with, the following-up tactics of strikers having been practically abandoned. The engine-drivers, however, when in the street are still attended by strikers, and in some cases also by the wives of the strikers. On these occasions the police are always present. There is plenty of surface work offering by the Waihi Company, and meanwhile a good deal of employment is given at Waikino in general cleaning and overhauling and in crushing and treatments plants, and also in connection with the company's electric transmission line for Ilora'hora. Yesterday aliout thirty fresh hands were put on at Waikino. and two or three more this morning. About fifty hands in all are now engaged. Hay ward's picture show is .Wins boycotted by strikers, owing to the fact that a few of the engine-drivers have attended, the strikers objecting to associate ill tiie same building with them. Everything is quiet hero and at Waikino to-day. Mr. J. Cnllen. Commissioner of Police, a (lends daily «t Waikino and Waihi, his headquarter* at Waihi. To-mor-row some fifty strikers are summoned to appear ah the Court to answer charges of nsiiKj; threatening lamiuage, assault, and following on r 'ine-drivers.