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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.

Supporters of the marchers during the Waihi Strike, 1912

The Miners and Workers Union Hall in Waihi.

March of strikers and supporters during the Waihi Strike, 1912

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.

Portrait of Fred Evans by Dick Scott. Evans was killed during the 1912 Waihi strike.