An artwork depicting controversial strikes on Auckland's waterfront 100 years ago has been covered up ahead of its removal this morning to avoid upsetting descendants of harbour workers.
The two-dimensional black silhouette shows a baton-wielding "strike-breaker", one of the rural Aucklanders employed to disrupt protesting dock workers in 1913.
The work is on Queens Wharf as part of Tamaki Makaurau - The Many Lovers of Auckland, a Waterfront Auckland project that tells the history of the waterfront.
![The artwork is part of a display telling the history of the waterfront.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/FZCXOFY6DRAK3HI77JO6BGJZRU.jpg?auth=8d877279cab60ddd08640f79d235f46541c7a4db9a62a8bc975b3579f63abca8&width=16&height=7&quality=70&smart=true)