TROUBLE AT WAIHI.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 117, 15 May 1912, Page 5

TROUBLE AT WAIHI.

THE BATTERIES .CLOSE DOWN

•JBOTH. SIDES. FIRM

WAIHI. May 14

..yesterday^.tlte ;;air. was tJaiek with! : rumors ..regai'ding .unpehding tro.uMe-1 between t,h;o;iJVriacrs{; CTnion and .the! local "'niiningv :cjpmip^nies : Uqv&r the; sp.v'eriwic^-Vof;: litio eiigine-dri^ois lr ronij th(| '(Jiiiojiilaad itlie'lformation .of ;al separape .Enion/.under the Arbiti:ation| Act., tiit> Miupcs' Union ..iins.uccess-] fully atteriiptedVto.mdube.tire engine-! .drivers to" disband the new Uouota.-; 'V'he ,result, was itlir.t at .four .o'clock; yesterday afternoon .the shifitadid. notj jio .to> work. .-_■-■■••• > ',". Tiie .tamers ;helti. i: a ixneetiijg Jastj ;ii.igiit ind.xes6lyed not-to reiairnto, \TOik till' the esiigineridrivers rejoin fclioj .Miners' .TJrxiauV' ;Pra*tically • allvworkceased at Uue :mme and batteries this; woriuug. TUe hoises iiave; been; i.iuioagJit^to tili.ejS}jr.fa,ce. . . ' ■:.; The strike will affect about : two| men.. • cand 13QQ0 of itheh-<3&Q-\ •pfa-idenfca. s .-■.■ - . ~ .' | The boiv.ugh srevenue .flepentts al-t nittst entirely, on thedtity on'.golcl,: ; ajid, this--will coiso firing strike/. Tho| ■g:aswKS,.-:sjfiakn!t;}.*y.service,- -hospital,! v.ateiMorks, an& -.borough matters; geuea'ajly . depeircl^entirely*:lipon tiiisj ;rc*vemxe. , ' ' .....'. "::"...■. ; ■.-';. ' ■ KTh^ mine piamps will "we. stoppea! this moraing, ' aiifl -tins . will add to| ■t'neiSoa-wHsness of tfihe position. J So far*; as car. be ■ascei'tained "bdtnj • sidtSs'at-p.; nrni. . 1 :Mr 'Rhodes, the "Waihi Gompanysji imiriing aepresentaifiive/aud'Mr 'Barry, ;J 6ho- rni^io supeiintenTlent, interviewed, ' said thai tlie trouble -was between 'the; 'Mi.ueris'Xir:ion,'»iid "the engine-drivers, not--with the conipaTiies. If.the miners were .prepared to resume wo'.'k now ,the coinpaiiics- could do nothing, as, Vhe Avhole Question had been' sttTniiittcd to tlK'lNew Zealand 'Gold 'Miners'. A^sooirifcion-. / , . . The "Mine'i-s' L rnioTi cancelled its re*istvati r«n vmder t1ao; Arbitration: •Act last 'May, and joined-the "Fedcra-; <tion -of Labdr. Since then ; it "has; b<«en workinp: /under an agreement; -.vhicb, accoraing to Mr "Rhodes,H'ho!, loftal director, the Federatiion \ hasii broken wifhotrt an insta-rtt's notice, j There was, no meiaion of 'strikes in. this agreemewt. i ■ •