COLERIDGE STRIKE.
FUTILE ATTEMPT TO SETTLE IT. (By Telegraph.—Prose Association.) Christchurch, October 1. Reports from Lake Coleridge state, that attempts at settlement of the strike have pioved abortive. Mt. M'Williams, the contractor, agreed to the reinstatement of tho engine-driver Rankin, and to provide bathrooms, chango tho rooms immediately, plnoe ladders in the shafts, reinstate all strikers, pay time and n half overtime and double Uino on Sundays, and wcouniso tho Labourers' Union. Tho strikers demanded tho dismissal cf two carpenter* who hud beoi working during Hie strike, but Mr. M'Williams declined on the ground that those men wore working under on arbitration, award nnd he had no right to dismiss them. The strikers thereupon decliaed to resume. . It is understood that the carpenters applied to their union for directions on the commencement of the strike, * nnd were told to continue work.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1560, 2 October 1912, Page 7
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141COLERIDGE STRIKE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1560, 2 October 1912, Page 7
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