MINING TROUBLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10711, 3 September 1912, Page 5

MINING TROUBLES

APPEAL 7I?OM WAIHI

(By Teleerap!'— Association.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night

At a meeting to-day of the council of the Wellington Chamber of merce, a communication dealing with the condition of affairs at Waihi came up for consideration. The secretary' of tho Waihi Drivers' Defenco Fund, Auckland, wrote asking for'the support of the public for members of the Waa'hi Drivers' Union, during the time of the strike. The appeal, after setting out the facts of the case enclosed a'form guaranteeing so much, 'for so long, for the support of the 'wives and children of the "sufferers. It was asked that the appeal should be circulated amongst the members of the Chamber.

The Chairman (Mr.Mn.bin) said that their sympathies were with the men.

Mr Jones said that he considered that endorsement of £!?& appeal was a highly political action, which aimed at smashing the Federation of Labour. Ho thought they, flg a Chamber, should not take any such action. Mr Ballinger held that the Chamber should uphold the union. They were fighting what was an illegal action to prevent men from working, and he thought it was their duty to help these men. ,

l lt was deckled that a list of the members of the Chamber should be j supplied to the applicants so that f a direct appeal could be made.