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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 72, 26 July 1912, Page 9

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Tho secretary of tho.Reefton Minors Union telegraphed to Sir Arthur Guinness when independent! arbitration was suggested, as follows: "Thanks for the offer, but the only thing to settle the matter would be an amendment of the Mining Act prohibiting tho singlehanded machine drills. Tho. workmen are determined not to submit.—lfagan." The Drivers' Union of Gisborne hasdecided to make a levy of Is. per member iv aid of tho Waihi and Rcei'ton strikers. Wired from Christchurch hist Saturday that three- representatives of the N.'Z.l'Mi. waited on the- Canterbury Trades and Labor Council and asked for assistance, financial or otherwise-, in connection with tho Reeefton and Waihi troubles. After hearing the representatives, tho Council decided- to take no action. Philip Kinlay, a young married man, with four of a family, who had been engaged at the State coal mine, was. struck by a fall of coal and timber on Tuesday night of fast week, and died at the hospital later without regaining consciousness. The blood toll I

Last week- the Hrunner Miners' Union., by 48 to '51, decided to withdraw from the Federation of Labor. What is it they call those who flee at the smell of danger?

It is required that those-- two—perhaps three- —small organisations withdrawing from tho Federation give six months' notice before they can leave, and during the-period bo equally responsible with othoijs financially.

Tho Transport Strike Cbiiim-itteo- of London has issued a manifesto in which it declares that the employers have flagrantly broken the agreements. Tt. estimates that nearly £'50,000 has been pilfered from the men's wages,, over 60 per cent, of whom earned less than a pound weekly. The strike funds are depleted, and "400,000 people are starving. It makes an urgent appeal f tc assistance.

Of the Independent Workers' circular print-.si in our leader, the "Labor Call

■■ Melb.) says: "The document has fallen, into our hands, and goes to prove

conclusively that this crowd of 'independent Workers' are nothing less than si rike-broakers and scabs of the worst type. Here we have a man practically asking the employers to create trouble by saying that they have men ready and willing to hike the billets of men who art' unionists."

"Otago Daily Times" gives a lengthy report of rousing speeches delivered by Howard and Semple in the Trades Hall. Ihinedin. last Friday night,. Jim Munro presided.