REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS.
TROUBLE AT WAIHI
(press association telegram.)
AUCKLAND, March 12. The management of the Waihi Gold Mining Company,'in'a statement with reference to the pro3ont trouble, state? that after the strike of 1912 a iinion was formed entirely of miners and batr tery hands who favoured the settlement of disputes by arbitration; as opposed to djj-ect acton by the Federaton of ; Labour. Later, the origipal members of . the union left to take up otheir workj ; and new members came in. The policy' ! of the union was unchanged till, ill-' 1916, thpre was a majority sufficient tpi join the Federation of labour. Thij anion continued to press its j, till, in November, 1918, an agreemcnf: ;vas roncbed under wfy'ch nino mej; ;U specified by namo,- were exempted from : joining the union. This was embodied ) n_an industrial agreement. | J
union has, again demanded dismissal of arbitratiojiisfc omployees, which . tho company resists, as it would be a i| gross breach of faith not to protect « logal employees who left the union ©n '1 account pf its revolutionary politics. { The company jntcnfls to hold to this U decision in the iace of any action the ps Fedpration^njß^jtake^^^^^
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16470, 13 March 1919, Page 6
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