COAL MINERS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16168, 23 March 1918, Page 8

COAL MINERS.

MEN DIVIDED AMONG THEMSELVES. For some time past there have bean many signs of industrial unrest on the est C-oast. and the question several people are asking is; -Will the minors strike.- Already there liave been 0110 cr two minor indications of unrest, and it is feared by many that the promulgation ci the sentence inflicted bv the court-martial on Private P. C. Webb, -U.l ~ will be succeeded bv a general throwing down ot tools ou the part of the \\ est ( oast miners. A well-kn<,\ Vn Christchurch gentleman S™ 1 ,IUSI ' , rt ' t,irnwJ tho Coast, uheie he made a special investigation of the position., informed a "Press" rcyivlerda- v that tiie opinion dictate ot the extremists. The "mine ' s st-tfj. would wv leome a strike, and a resulting + 0 a with its <onsequr-nt dispoSil of the trvin vo-ue fo " UCertnint - v which r » a * bw.i in vogue for so many months past. Tim, miners at present a're "all nerved ■ n ,S n°r of , affa,rs is extremely injl " ' • " ot only to the mines but to the country generally. DRAST *C FORECASTE1). ( s fecjai, to "the Pitess.") WELLINGTON. March ?2. U is understood that at last "tho Government is going to take some •tc ion regarding the continuing strikes in the coal mines on tho West Coast °? Col ', tam 1,10 net ion n-ijj b« forthwith SS th ° Strik " CS a! 0