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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 177, 13 December 1912, Page 5

With that colossal conceit which characterises him, the labor agitator, Mr, Semplc, told a public meeting at Auckland on Saturday night that the main cause of + he strikers' defeat was the lack of support received from tlve working class. They expected no mercy from the employers' capitalistic organisation or policy, but they did expect it from the. man who wore dungarees. There was the case of the tramwavmcu who, when their, class was in trouble, should only have stuck more closely to it, but who deserted from its ranks when the fight was at its height. In his opinion they were just as bad as the men who sold their honor and became "scabs" at Waihi. A number of other unions did the same and were too cowardly to take part in the battle.