The Waihi Miners.
(,By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.)
WAIHI, February 26.
The following have been dismissed from the Waikino battery: Messrs Wilson, Cashen, Bullock, Humphreys and Jenkins.
The Union; have asked' the miners here not to sign the paper from the Waihi Co. asking employees to declare their willingness to .abide by the present scale of wages. MR RHODES' STATEMENT. Mr 'Charles Rhodes, attorney for the company, states that there is evidently a misapprehension on the subject of the dismissal of some miners employed at th* Waihi mine. No instructions to that ■effect were issued from the London office or the office at Auckland. He states that the men have not been dismissed by rea. son of their connection with the Miners' Union, and that the management have not caused lists to 'be sent around with a view - of . intimidating the men into signing that they are satisfied with the present s»ale of wages. Mr Rhodes denies that there is any intention whatever of intimidation on the part of the com-
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9879, 26 February 1901, Page 2
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