DISTINCT TACTICAL BLUNDER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1912, Page 8

DISTINCT TACTICAL BLUNDER

• XHt-XGttAPK— SPEOIAt 50 WES POM.3 ] WAIHI, This Day. • The strikers realise that their childish . tactics, begun in a spirit of idle mis'•mchielL .and carried too far by irrespon1 Bible members of the Miners' Union, • been a distinct tactical -blunder, ! &iMUng . a reasonable excuse for , filling [ tfie -town with police. It is admitted '..on-, ©very hand that hundreds of miners '"to'dk no part, in the irritating _ proceefsiofls which caused the enginedrivers to „ jfear an outbreak of violence. The whole • •attention of strikers is concentrated' on 'the prosecutions now being heard before the Magistrate. Ever since the issue of the 'summonses,' several days ago, the tailing up of such enginedrivers as are bold enough to walk the streets has .";be"en carried out at more than a respectful distance, and has been obvious\y t half-hearted. SIGNIFICANT ' INDICATION. ■ The coal which it wae reported was I -.ordered from Huntly for the Waihi ! '. ■Company V battery at Waikino has ar- > vi lived, thusi indicating in a significant r. H, manner that the coalminers have not refused to hew the coal to support a .^company which candidly proposes to .-iM^atploy only anti-Federationiets. :' s ; NEW UNION FORMED -, r ,..fJfiS SEtXfllUPfl — PfiESS ASSOCIATION.} WAIHI, This Day. The Arm'tratkmist workers' employed by the Waihi Company at its Waik'ino , works have formed a union under the '"'Arbitration Act. Application for registration went forward to-day. The number is in the vicinity of fifty. < WHEN WORK WILL START ON MONDAY NEXT. ■■* for- tfitsoaApfl— smcul to m post.) WAIHI, This Day. It is understood that work will start 6n' Monday next at the Waihi Company's . „m.me,, as far as surface work is coni cerned,' and .that the miners will be cmi! ployed later.