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.
Fred Evans' violent death during the 1912
Waihi miners' strike made this otherwise obscure figure into a martyr of the
New Zealand labour movement. He remains one of only two people to be killed
during an industrial dispute in this country's history.
Striking worker Fred Evans was savagely beaten by police and strike-breakers during the bitter dispute at the goldmining town of Waihī. He died the following day.
