THE WAIHI MINES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 8 October 1912, Page 5

THE WAIHI MINES

THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS WOMEN STIIOXGIA* IX EVIDENCE. ANOTHER MINE STARTS WORK. (By Teleftravh—Press Association.) WAIHJ, Last Night, Tue non-workers and women in different parts of Waihi were early astir I long before the hour for starting at tho mint's. Knots of people assembled in places whore they expected to see the workers. Women with perambulators wore ,i! ■■;:■) in evidence, arriving with oth--1 ers from the outskirts of the town. 1 (J roups gathered in the street op- • posite the -Central Hotel, in tho viol init'y of the railway station, and at 1 points along the line of route of the I Waihi Company's Waikino tramline. I Refreshed by Sunday's rest, the woJ men turned up in greater numbers, th? chief points of attraction being I thee foot of tho company's No. 2 I shaft in Mine road, leading up from 1 Seddon Street, and the company's I vxilwnv crossing opposite the No, :" f ~Wt.' }•■•'• The vicinity of these places was oej r-vnied by a large crowd, its number ! being much greater than on Saturday. \ As has been the case latterly the ,i worrieri yore in the majority, and took i a much more active part in the de--1 monstration than the men. As soon as the vehicles containing ( the workers hovered in sight the woi men sprang into activity, and a ,' chorus of "booh-hooing" emanated from them as the ve-hieles passed. Mixed expressions of feeling were "ivinifostod by the different factions !>"= the company's brake, with thirty odd workers, crossed the st'reet. I A vumber of well-known loyalists cheered hea-rtil-". The whistle pf +he'Grand Junction -"•He sounded this reorninir for the fi- s f tie"" 1 since the commencement of tl»« st-'ik-. • Several men responded to the call. They are to bo engaged at the power- , The workers .°f Waikiro are having t an ea-iv tim? with the pickets, { Thev. are In the vast majority.'>nd f"^ r -i 1 o"'- liPli-u-d l-r-onis and other - nlaces of resort without lot or'hindrance. When f V> pickets enter a billiard room and see any workers there, they t retire, and life is becoming so monotonous in the now busy town that • they are anxious to get out of it. I Twenty-four informations have been laid against persons in connection with the recent demonstrations. J A man named Meagher was arrest- / ed this morning on a charge of using obscene language. The following official statement was sennlied to'-day by the Union: "Tho additional number of men who resumed, work to-day is thirteen, of whom six'pre actual underground workers, ' 'making the total number of miners who have started since. Wednesday seven. Of the others, four men havo Had underground experience, hut are prevented from' working below for health reasons. Seven members of 1 the Union have started, of whom at least two are unfinancial. Tho additional number have been drafted in I from Waikino_ but these are no accession to the actual strength. The j mine official declare themselves { satisfied. This is easily contracted, if harmless. Tfie satisfaction is not grudged to thorn bv the miners; but on the contrary is an additional source of amusement and pleasure to them."