Fraser at Waiuta

Maoriland Worker, Volume 6, Issue 244, 20 October 1915, Page 7

Fraser at Waiuta

SUCCESSFUL MEETINCS. ! •We Have had P. Fraser, 5.D.1 , ..' or-, ganiser. here for a Uw days, and' al- j though only one msecing wa? held, gcod. propaganda was tione. resulting. i» i some now members ' entering . ourj branch. Fraser arrived on Thursday ■ night, and on Friday ar.d Saturcby wo! visited the mine and interviewed the j men who were going on and coming off shift, and visited every house, and camp in Waiuta. '. Sunday morning saw. us; oit'i'or the Btockwatt-r Battery and ■ Rukawai, ' where the Millcrtoir (.!old-.■ Mining | Company &i<s again sinking their j shaft deeper. W$ distributed leaflets! and • sold . literaiui c, which tcok till tea-1 time. At? p.m. a public meeting v.aij hold, which was well attended, when j the following lesoluiion was carried j unanimously: — . j This public meeting condemns the. victimisation which is being allowed on tho Greymouth and .Auckland wharves, and considers the amendment to tho Conciliation and Arbitration Act, introduced by the-Minister for Labour, ostensibly to remedy the j acknowledged evil,, as being alto-| {>ether inadequate and in no way promising a just- solution or establishing the elementary to live for the, workei'3 concerned. This meeting ■ therefore calls upon the National, Government to withdraw the pro-1 pvsed amendment to the C and A.! Act. and to substitute effective legi>-, lation which would place tho right i to earn, a livelihood within the .reach j of all and without in any way heaping still further indignities upon men seeking work. , ■ POPPER.