THE WAIHI STRIKE.
SUPPORT PROMISED
(Pw Press Association.)
Auckland, May 15
Mr Fraser, president of the General Labourer’s Union, in an interview, said so far the federation had no official notification of the Waihi strike, but there was not the slightest doubt that affiliated unions would support the Waihi miners in the attitude taken up. No other course was open to them except to strike. In his opinion it would be found that there was more behind the trouble than appeared. Different unions in one industry eould not be tolerated. "While fifteen men could form a union under the Arbitration Act it was impossible to allow fifteen men to dictate to fifteen Lund red. Affairs industrial in New Zealand generally were regarded by the union officials as very unsatisfactory in many respects, frequent victimisation was reported in many (pi,alters. There was a possibility of the present trouble extending. The Waihi miners could rest assured of the solid support of the unionists of the Dominion.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 16, 16 May 1912, Page 2
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