GENERAL LOCK-OUT POSSIBLE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1487, 9 July 1912, Page 4

GENERAL LOCK-OUT POSSIBLE.

IF MINE STRIKES GO OX. ' (By Tolctfraph.-Prces Association.) . Dunodin, July 8, In conversation to-day/with a reporter,' a well-known Dimedin coalmine iiro« prietor, referring to remarks made by some speakers at a meeting of the Kuitamrata. minors on Friday, said that it was nmio possible for those miners who wero ifHioil to tlio Federation, of, Labour to brinr about a condition of affairs that midifc startle oven themselves, llq elated (hat the coalmine owners were now a federated body throughout (ho Dominion, mid they were gelling absolutely tired of the overlasting unrest that was prevailing aircngst the workers in tho various coalmines, and tho continued throats of tho Labour leaders. Rather than stand much more in tins direction, tho owners might ultimately tako the bull by tho horns and close down every mino in ll|o Dominion until such -time as ronton prevailed, and work could be 'earned on with some degree of security. Jhe informant continued/that, wiiilo members of. the Federation of Labour wore froo to strike (since the* wero not now registered under the Arbitration Act), tho employers also, if they deemed fit, were hist as free to lock out, It was quite on the cards, therefore, that tho federation workers, instead of bringing about a local strike, might have W face a. general lock-out.