THE TROUBLE AT WAIHI.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 36, 5 October 1912, Page 6

THE TROUBLE AT WAIHI.

njjix 'll .! 'fo !■’ "* i*'.- • LETTERS OF INTIMIDATION. GOING BACK TO WORK. (United Press Association.) < Waihi, October 5. Strikers have adopted an extraordinary method of intimidating wouldbe workers. In one instance a boxpainted black and representing a coffin hearing the inscription “Waihi cemetery won’t hold you,” was hit on an Arbiirationist’s verandah. The man said ho intended resuming work but the sight of an imitation coffin sent him back into his house. There was only a very small gathering of strikers to meet the workers going to the mine this morning, and a. little hooting ensued. Grand Junction employees living half a mile from the mine, and where there was no police patrol, were followed this morning by about fifty men, women and children, and assailed with insulting epithets by both sexes, besides being pelted with eggs. Since the resumption of work in the mine an old pair pf trousers, a hat and a billy-can have been figuring at

the top of tho flagpole on the Miners’ Union Hall, but this morning these emblems were removed and replaced by tho British Ensign. Socialist members of the Union were this morning wearing red, white and blue ribbons instead of bits of red. This is taken as a sarcastic set-off to the display of British colours worn by loyalists. IAI large number of minors are expected to take employment at the mines on Monday. The Grand Junction mine resumes work on Monday.