NIGHTCAPS MINERS AND FREE LABOUR.
A HINT OF TROUBLE
(grECIAL TO "THE PRISS.") INVERCARGILL, December 1. The following extract from a letter appearing in to-night's "News" indicates that the Nightcaps miners are apparently preparing to forcibly resist the use of free labour in the mine. The letter is signed by John Price, corresponding secretary of the Nightcaps Miners' Union:—"lf Mr Handyside (managing director) considers it his duty to his shareholders and the public to fill our places with free labour, we on the other hand consider it our duty to our wives and children to prevent him by any and every means from doing so. When a certain, body of men have decided to stand together to promote their interests and future welfare, they cannot afford to have their fellow workers 'ratting* on them. Such a course would be suicidal, and if Mr Handyside persuades himself that w© are going to retire from this fight gracefully and with a word of gentle apology, or that we are going to lie down and invite him to kick us out, he will find himself very much mistaken-—at least these are my impressions."
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14838, 2 December 1913, Page 8
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190NIGHTCAPS MINERS AND FREE LABOUR. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14838, 2 December 1913, Page 8
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