WAIHI AFTERMATH.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 274, 23 October 1912, Page 6

WAIHI AFTERMATH.

AUCKLAND LABOURERS QUIETER.

Auckland. Oct. 22

The unrest in the local labour circles is gradually quietening down. To-day many men are idle, finding their positions filled by others. Discontent with the tactics of the federation is growing among the local members. HUNTLY MINERS RESTLESS. The "Herald's” special reporter at Huntly telegraphs to the effect that the suspense is telling on a certain section of the idle miners. This afternoon a pressman paused in front of the executive’s office to ascertain if any messages were posted up. Suddenly a miner, said to be an Austrian, stepped forward and said to the pressman in an angry tone, ‘‘Would you like a dip in the river?” “No, thank you,” replied the pressman firmly. "Then,” persisted the striker. "I will well throw you in." With that he made at the pressman with clenched hands, but was prevented by the union secretary and others. Early in the afternoon an arbitration advocate was interfered with by one of the strikers catching him by the coat and others endeavouring to jostle him. On this occasion the secretary also inter-

vened. The movement in favour of the new union is growing apace. FLAXMILLERS' DEMONSTRATIONS'. Palmerston N.. Oct. 22. The flaxinillcrs’ deinoi.stratioii today against the imprisonment of the Waihi strikers was attended by about 250 workers. Several mills, however, including the big' Miranui mill at Makerua, were not represented. Messrs. Webb and Semple addressed the men at the Opera House, where resolutions were passed protesting against the imprisonment of the Waihi strikers, the alleged victimising of the Huntly miners’ executive, the Auckland general labourers’ lock-out, and the Kuripaki miners’ lock-out, and pledging the meeting to support the federation in fight against the despotism of autocracy, also a further resolution protesting against Government’s inaction concerning the ac-

commodation and sanitation of flax- * mills. A procession and speeches in the Square followed. The proceedings were most orderly. A • RED ’ FANATIC. ARMED WITH REVOLVER AND POISON. INTIMIDATION OF IMPORTED LABOUR. Auckland. Oct. 23. Three young men who were travelling from Te Aroha to Paeroa in a railway carriage were accosted by a man wearing long streamers of red ribbon, who warned them to keep away from Waihi to save trouble. It is alleged that the command was emphasised by the production of a revolver and a threat to shoot one of the young men, a Maori, if he was not a federationist. The Maori was almost scared to death. He asserted he was not bound for Waihi and when the train reached Paeroa he jumped off the carriage, tore the ribbon from his coat and bolted. The intruder is further stated to have produced a bottle, said to contain poison, saying ‘this will do me ,if lam nabbed.” He went on by /train to Waihi.