October 13, 2022

On 12 Novem­ber 1921 was ‘Black Tues­day’, when Waihi miner Fred Evans was killed while on strike with 1,500 of his work­mates.
The Waihi Miners’ Strike was a pivotal point in Aotearoa New Zealand’s indus­tri­al rela­tions his­tory and every year we remem­ber Fred and the sig­ni­fic­ant impact of the strike.