REEFTON MINERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1595, 12 November 1912, Page 6

REEFTON MINERS.

-4^ — r--*: TROUBLE CONSIDERED TO BE ENDED.. (By Telegraph—Pre£« Association.) Beef ton, November Il.i Tho Inangahua Miners-* Union' held a mass meeting, attended by 200 men, last night. The proccedirifes were long. Messrs. Dowgray and i'agan, delegate Irom the Federation, of Labour, presented a report, recommentiine the I'oUo.wijig terms of settlement:'*" , "Reeiton dispute.—A . settlement of the above dispute- has been arrived at, the following being the main, provisions of agreement :-(l) That the employers cmim that hammer' drills are.; to be worked by one iuan.be withdrawn, and that all mining operations could now be done by men working in pairs;. (IS) tho employers to have ,the right to have stoping ami all other descriptions of mining operations to be done by contract, subject to spitifications which-have been draw'u up; {3) preference to unionists to be granted on eonditipn that if a Worker does not join the uuiim uu the ftrst pay day after engagement, ho shall be dismissed, uroviding there be a member of-the- nnion ejiilelly qualihed, ready, and willing to uridertake'the same; (4) the employers agree that there shall be no victimisation of members of the union, and that all work' crs be reinstated in their old positions as far as possible. The agreement is to be for twelve months, from December 1, 1912; (s).the above settlement,was.approved by the companies interested." Th» union nmeting approved tho recommendation. It was decided not to' adopt it or otherwiia till a. ballot, which is to be held on November 16, Th« troublo is new considered to be end»d. 'The agreement u to be register' ed under the Arbitration Court, .

The ignition of e. kapo« mattress In a badroom' at the Central HoUl, Pjitono, ysstorday eausad th« brigade to- turn out, but tho hotel staff had practically suppressed the blazo a» toon' as the alsrnn was givsn. About J3O worth of daniaga was dono. The building.is insured in the Now Zealand Coampany for JJIMQ, and tbs contents for i8?00. A deaf and dumb couple, attended by a dval and dumb bo=t inan, were ttiarrfed at St. Leonard's Church/, Colchester, Essex,, recently, the ceremony being conducted in the ffiute language:. A mnchine has just been invented that can make raft at the rate of one a minuti.