Events In History
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24 October 1913Violence flares on Wellington wharvesEvents in Wellington on and around 24 October marked the beginning of the Great Strike of 1913 – a bitter two-month struggle that would ultimately involve 16,000 unionists around the country. Read more...
Articles
The 1912 Waihi strike
On 'Black Tuesday', 12 November 1912, in the midst of a bitter six-month strike by miners in the small New Zealand goldmining town of Waihi, striker Fred Evans was killed - one of only two fatalities in an industrial dispute in New Zealand's history.
- Page 1 - 'Black Tuesday'On 'Black Tuesday', 12 November 1912, in the midst of a bitter six-month strike by miners in the small New Zealand goldmining town of Waihi, striker Fred Evans was killed - one of
The 1913 Great Strike
The Great Strike of 1913 was in fact a series of strikes between mid-October 1913 and mid-January 1914. It was one of New Zealand’s most violent and disruptive industrial confrontations.
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Page 2 – Class war comes to the workers' paradise 1890-1913
History of New Zealand's employment relations, 1890-1913.
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Page 3 – Outbreak of the 1913 strike
The 1913 Great Strike was sparked off by two relatively small strikes.
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Page 4 – The 1913 strike in Wellington
Because the strike threatened their livelihoods, rural men were keen to volunteer as special constables.
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Page 5 – The 1913 strike in Auckland
Watersiders in Auckland began to strike in support of those in Huntly and Wellington.
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Page 7 – The defeat of the 1913 strike
The seizure of the wharves in Wellington and Auckland greatly reduced the strikers’ industrial power. Similar takeovers by ‘scab’ arbitration unions soon happened in other
Biographies
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Evans, Frederick George
Fred Evans' violent death during the 1912 Waihi miners' strike made this otherwise obscure figure into a martyr of the New Zealand labour movement.
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