BLACKBALL STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 7

BLACKBALL STRIKE.

CHARGES AGAINST THE COMPANY, .BY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

Creymouth, Maroh 10. ;. Interest in to-morrow's proceedings is at fever heat," and the accommodation of the Court-room will be taxed to its utmost. Not only will there be a record gathering from Blackball, but many miners from tho State collieries and Brunner havo com© into town. Anxiety as to tho sequel has not .-been allayed, and local ooal merchants continue to rfcoivo orders from residents who desire to keop their bins full. There is good reason to btheve,, however, that the' Stato collieries and Tyneside miners aro quite satisfied' with the present conditions, and that work will go on as usual.' . i To-night tho Blackball Union filed the fol-. lowing oliarges against-the Company:— : (1) That the Blackball Coal Co. committed a breach of tho award by. discharging- at a minute's notice in about tho middlo of tho day, seven men engaged at piecework, before tho day's work was' finished; '

(2) That the Blackball Coal Company committed a, breach of Section 118 of tho Industrial, Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1905, by discharging seven men' employed by it because thoy were Unionists, j (3) That the Blackball Coal Company committed a broach of Section. 15 of tho Amendment Act, 1905, by causing a lock-out by discharging sovon men employed by it. An, endeavour will bo made to got the Court to sit at Blackball.