THE WAIHI TROUBLE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10508, 19 November 1912, Page 5

THE WAIHI TROUBLE.

—« THE WAIHI ASSAULTS. Per Press Association. Commissioner Calien advices the Minister that the police are taking proceedings against both_ Arbitrationists and Federatiouists for assaults and breaches of the peace during tho late trouble. The cases are set down for. to-morrow week. GIVING THE FACTS. Thames, November 18. The Rev. Cleary, vicar of St. George’s, Waihi, Mr Rudd, president of, tho newly-formed .Miners’ Union of Waihi, and Mr Foster, speaking, as a delegation from the Arbitratiouists of Waihi, addressed a large public meeting at the Miners’ Union Hall to-night. The object of the delegation was to refute incorrect statements made by the Federation leaders, supporters and women as to the condition of affairs at Waihi, re detailed incidents leading up to the determined action of the workers in claiming the rights of British subjects to work and to proceed to work without molestation and without police protection, which had suggested to * them that they were being treated as prisoners. They determined to assert their rights as British subjects, and it was the insults to which many of tho men and women had been subjected for months that caused thorn to take the measures they did. No insults were offered to the women by the Arbitrationists. , The streets of Waihi were now free to all, and a much happier state of things existed than under the system of insult and terrorism by the Red Federation. Stories of burning houses, assaults on men and women, sensational statements made as to "maltreatment, were emphatically denied by the speakers. Mr Rudd, aroused great enthusiasm by stating that Waihi was now free from pernicious anarchism, the tenets (of the Federation; and the workers were determined it would remain so. A collection was taken up to de-' fray the delegates’ expenses. The Federation held an open-air meeting in proximity to the Hall. .Waihi, November 19. ’ A number of informations have been laid in connection with the recent troubles between Arbitrationists and Federatiouists to come, on for hearing nest Tuesday. CONSTABLE WADE. There is no change in the condition of Constable Wade. The chief trouble is his excessive weak-