WAIHI DAY BY DAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 82, 2 December 1912, Page 5

WAIHI DAY BY DAY.

THE STRIKE OFF. (Per Press Association.) Waihi, December 1. Mr Rhodes, of the Waihi Company, when interviewed, said that he had been officially informed .that the strike was. ofi'. He mentioned that a list of about four hundred workers willing to return to Waihi had been handed to the Mining Company. It would, he said, be certainly impossible to find work for the lot, or even for one-half, during the remainder of the year, nor until the water in the low levels liad been pumped out, hut the Waihi Co. had made a promise to give the preference during the next ten days to married men with homes in Waihi. The company, of course, was free to choose from those offering, but those who were married men were deemed to ho the most suitable for the company’s requirements.

SEMPLE AND CO. AT AUCKLAND. Auckland, December 2. Messrs Semple, ■ Webb and Parry attended a large meeting in the Opera House on Sunday night, when reference was made to the ending of the Waihi strike. Mr Semple said hundreds of men were prepared to march on Waihi but they would have been met by ball cartridges and the end of bayonets. They knew that the military were in constant readiness to proceed there, and that the Territorials would be called out if necessity had arisen. In the face of such drastic measures, the Federation deemed it inadvisable to send the men back. He and other speakers expressed the hope that good results ’ would come from the Labour Conference to be held in Wellington during January.

IN SUPPORT OF THE STRIKES. (Received 8.0 a.m.) Sydney, December 2. The Barria Labour Federation at Broken Hill has passed a resolution deprecating the action of the New Zealand Government in supporting an armed thuggery; also one against the action of the mine owners in their American methods of trying to break the strike at Waihi. The Federation reaffirmed the resolution to support the strikers.