MORE MINERS NOT WELCOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1787, 27 June 1913, Page 8

MORE MINERS NOT WELCOME.

LABOURITE SAYS WHY. (By Telegraph—Preaa .Association.) Christchurch, Juno 26. Mr. M. Fagan, secretary of the Inaneahua Miners' Union, who passed through Christchurch to-day to attend the executive meeting of the Federation of Labour, Federation Congress, and Unity Congress at Wellington, was interviewed concern, ing a cablegram sent by him to the secretary of the Australian Miners? Association to stop labour frem coming from the Broken Hill district to Keefton. Mr. Fagan said that the position was that the mines at lieefton were already fully manned. Tho Wealth of Nations and tho Blackwater Mines were fully manned and batteries woro crushing a greater tonnage than ever before. Tho Globe battery was not employing its full number of stamps, but that was not duo to the scarcity of labour. The statement that 300 men were required at Keefton was absolutely untrue, 'l'ho union had certainly attempted to prevent men from' coming from Broken Hill, and also from the North Island of New Zealand because they felt that such men wero only wanted for purposes of increasing competition on the field. "The union," addud Mr. Fagan, "lias no desire to cripplo the mining industry iu licefton nor to hamper the field in any way, but we consider it our duty to protect the lives and limbs and welfare of our members generally and prevent men coming to Keefton on what would certainly prove to bo a wild goosa chase."