WEST COAST MINERS' STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 680, 3 December 1909, Page 7

WEST COAST MINERS' STRIKE.

NO NEW MOVE. IB} Telscr>ph — Pre»« AtincletloP) Grtymouth, December 2. The minera have so far made no new move, The Faparoa miners, in a resolution, express sympathy with the strikers. ■ ABSURD CLAIMS. IBj TolesrßDb-Sdbcllil (jorressonaint i Auckland, December 2 The miter of "Labour Notes" in the "Herald" says , | v "The strike at the State coal-mine at Point Elisabeth, threatens to end in disaster. The miners,, may havo had a legitimate grievance on 'the question of trucking, on which they wont out on strike, but their later claims are, generally speaking, absurd. < Good Wages but Bad Agitators. "When the- State coal-minea were instituted, , it was for tho purpose of conserving the interacts of the people as a whole, and tPe conditions of employment' werovto bo suohi the men to earn good wages This they havo done, oiu their own. showing, *as they haie ( artiagwl Us a day, Tho ifaultt seems to lie' ■with,tho ravolptionary Socialist agitators who have recently found tho Dominion' a happy hunting-ground for tHe spread of their theories. These men, being ready of the tongue, have obtained an ..entrance into tho ranks of oigamaed laboLr, and have utilised the union to further their propaganda. , - < , Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary. "The average traSes unionist of, the Dominion to-day has Socialists tendencies, but they are more inclined to be of tho evolutionary than the revolutionary type. Should a geneial strike of miners bo decided upon, the pubho jympathy will be ahennted, and, without this, the miners cannot hope to win.