THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1912. THE WAIHI STRIKE.
People who ai'e not direeauy affected by the Waihi irrincr.s' strike have little idea of wli.it the trodble is about. The men working in the Wailii mines cancelled their registration under the Arbitration, Act for the purpose of joining the Federation of Labour, which is not registered under the Act, but a section ioif the workers, the en-ginc-dirivei'S;, ibeing unwilling to join the Federation of Labour, established a Union of their own according to the provji'siaiis of the Arbitration Act. Thirj did not euit the unregistered Federation of Labour, whiioh organisation notified the Waihi -Company that a strike would be (maintained until the Company insisted on the' disbandment of the inew and ilega'Uy-formcd Union, and the submission of its -members to' the Federation of Labour. It is a i declaration of .war iby one set of workers against another, and the employers are made 1 to suffer in consequence. This makes the Arbitration Act look quite grotesque, for Ave have a strike, which the Act was designed to prevent by encouraging (unionism, precipitated by the refus.il of a body of workers outside the Act to permit another 'body of workers to form a 'Union under the Act-. The promoters of the' strike are seeking to force 'Unionists to abandon their own union and joiuv another— practically to forci> fellow-utrioniists to come from -behind tho .shelter and advantages of the Arbitration- Act. The object of the Federation of Labour iis to got into one union alii workers ,in and about tho milieu, including the .engine-drivers. Th'is is what they :call indiK'triall unionism. The stationary engine-driver has nothing necessarily in- common •With miners, for he may be- next week working in a> sawmill or in some other industry -where a stationary engine forms' part lof the equipment. The mining companies affected show no disposition to help tho unregistered! Federation of Labour, and tho tight will probably be prolonged.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10680, 29 July 1912, Page 4
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328THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1912. THE WAIHI STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10680, 29 July 1912, Page 4
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