TOWN WITH FOREIGN AGITATORS.
In the course of his speech to-day Mr blander referred to the Waihi strike, t*nd its termination, in unequivocal terms. "Had. it not been for the firm fiand the Government used, and tho generalship of the Minister and. Commissioner of Police, there would have boon much more trouble at Waihi," declared the member top Marsden. "I am perfectly satisfied," he went on, "that it was one of the best things thai ever happened in this country— the settling of tho Waihi strike as the Government settled it. It was a strike, not between capital and labour, ibut between two sections of the working party, and it says much tor. the .Arbitration]sts that they stood tho .ptrain of persecution, -so ni'inl'til^y for those four or five months. It would bo t». good thing for tho working men of this country if the inflammatory flame <jf foreign agitators was put down by .Act of Parliament. I hope the Arbitration Bill to be brought down thus Hossion will give the working men a ilxjtter opportunity of settling their grievances than they have hud before in this country."
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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13775, 16 July 1913, Page 6
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TOWN WITH FOREIGN AGITATORS.
Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13775, 16 July 1913, Page 6