SHORT-LIVED STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1530, 28 August 1912, Page 9

SHORT-LIVED STRIKE.

AT TALISMAN MINE. 'ENDED IN TWENTY-FOUR HOTTES, (By Telegraph— Press Association.) ~ , Auckland, August 27. A. strike by miners employed by the P a Talisman Consolidated Company (Karaugahake) has taken plaoa, but proved of brief dnrati.on.. It commenced on Monday afternoon' at four o'clock, and concluded | to-day at the same hour, when the after- ha npon shift resumed work. Three hundred men were affected. The men came out <" • ostensibly because the, company had taken "* into' its employment a member of the u D Waihi Engine-Drivers' and Firemen's {„ Union (registered under the Arbitration tij Act), but, as the raining industry at tli Karangahake is being carried on under *" em agreement ratified by the Arbitration "' Court, the reason given would not appear a] .to be sufficient. j'■ pi It seems'rather that the troublo was pi brought abont~by internal.dissension ! n " the union, and precipitated by the de- „ feat of that section opposed to .arbitration ■ methods at the recant election of execu- ¥( iive- officers. They apparently seized the pi opportunity offering to create farther so friction, and persuaded the miners going j* rn shift yesterday afternoon not to go Tr>de'rgroiind because of the presence there y •.'" She Waihi driver. ' _ ai Having so far succeeded, they then in- u: fov.i'vd 'th'o" company's undenrrouud di Waaler, that the workers, com prising the ™ aitorri'on. shift would not go below'while ti-e driver remained in the .'company'a ~ Th-ilr- decisiqh was conveyed to the ;' Mr,e;'o<--nd*nt (Mr. H. Stansfield), whose "; reply ids le it -clear that the. company ft f\id ,115 irvention-of dispensing with, the •wtf; -■•. of the engine-driver. . Mining , .' coivjitior:- were consequently suspended. • "To-d*?, -.•'■ noon, a mass meeting-of the, l i nni'-r •.-.••. held to consider the position, * Mr.' T. Morgan (president of the branch " union) presiding, and Mr. Sawyer (presi- jj dent of the Thames Union) also being in " attendance. There was a full muster, of 3, union. members,, including the workers, of the New Zealand Crown mines, who, with £ the consent of the General Manager (Mr. J T. M'Combifl), had ceased work in order * lb attend • the meeting, which was held with closed doors. Between one and two K o'clock V-'deputation from " the meeting waited npon the superintendent of (he -P Talisioan Company, and asked if the n management would allow the men to re- S sume work. The reason given for this re- « quest was that the driver objected to had P left the employment.of the-company. A ri reply in- the affirmative was given. . a The man who was objected to left the | place stating, that he did not <f wish to- cause, any- trouble,-and that the e: people in 'the', boardingho-ase where he ; P was staying were threatened with a boy- t cott.'. Work.was resnmed. at four o'clock. « - The men are working iunder, an award, J) and are therefore liable to a. penalty in, C striking. ; ' .• . ... c It is . understood thafcj the deputation from the men to the manager also asked that, in future, the'names of applicants for engine-driving should be submitted to 1 the union before they'were employed. This was refused. The; management,in- <j tunated .that, in .future, only enginedrivers who were ) not opposed to the Thames Miners' Union Would be employed. :; THE DEIVEp LEFT. " ' . \ IBy Telesrapn.—Special CorresDonaont.l c ! , Auckland, August 27. £ ' The strike of the miners at tire Talisman £ and Crown .mines at Karangahake was a J short-lived affair, -.the men deciding' at » noon to-day to resume work on the after- ' neon shift. ' . J The'strike was due" to a, member of the I Waihi Engihe-driyersj Union having-taken ! ■'. work with the- the superintendent j 'of which'refused "him. This ' morning,- ho'w'e?er7-'therdnv¥f .voluntarily leit'the" districtvUhus: feirloy-' J ing the cause of .dispute. The Crown men. < did nct'actu'ally"strike, apparently only' < oeaanf'w6rb' : toattßad;thema.S3 meeting at- f which'a resumption was ;.decided L on. : .'. i The-' share market .was. very little affected by the strike'. In the employers' circles no consternation "was aroused. la- . deed, the feeling.'exists that the more , strikes there ,aie_ now.', the better. It is , only the payment"of levies by men in work which"js: keeping' the Waihi 'strikers in , idleness. ':,''- • . ,'" '. ' The situation'at ..Waihi'is still'siich as ■ to lead all'interested to. hope for a speedy j intervention, of .some sort, ■ ' ]