MINERS AND THEIR BATH AND BEER
♦ GREYMOUTH, Nov. 3. Workers at the Pyramid mine, Reefton, walked out this afternoon as a protest against the employers' failure to provide a bath house for the use of the inen. A bath house was to have been put up but construction is still in the slow stages. It is expected a satisfactory agreement will be reached soon. The Trades Council tonight expressed determination to continue the boyeott of sevenpenny beers and published a list of IS unions which had made decisions supporting the boyeott. The council also set up a committee to organise workers' clubs and to register intending members, stating certain aspects of the proposed clubs would De fmancially supported by the Govemment.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 November 1947, Page 4
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