THE WAIHI STRIKE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14912, 3 December 1912, Page 4

THE WAIHI STRIKE.

AUSTRALIANS MISLED. THROUGH BELIEVING FEDERATIONISTS. Presß Association—Er Tel.—CoDyrnjM- „,, SYDNEY, j)ec. 2. I lie Earner Labour Federation at Broken Hill pa.ss?d a. resolution '•deprecating the action of the New Zealand Government in .supporting, armed thuggery; also the action of the mineowners jn their American method of trying to break ihe strike at Waihi. - ' Tlie Federation i eaffiiiied a i .■•.solution to support the .strikers. FEDERATION FICTIONS. AUCKLAND, I)e:. 2, Messrs Setiiple, Webb and >ariy attended a large neeting at U\<c Cpera House on Sunday night, when reference was made to the ending of. the Waihi strike. Mr Sample said that hundreds of men were prepared to march o.i Waihi. but they would have been met bv ball cartridge:; and nayonofs. They ' know that the military was in constant readinoxs to proceed there, and i hut the Territorials would have l-.een called if the necessity had arisen, in face of such drastic ino-i.si;r"s the r ''e icr.ir.ion doomed it inadvisable to send men back. He a.iid other spoako.s ed a. hope that good re nits would c.-'ee from the Labour Conference""in AYellington in January.