GREYMOUTH & THE MINES.
WORK CEASING (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! Creymoiith, November 3. The Grey watersiders, by a largo majority , went on strike to-day, forty-three voting against it at the meeting yesterday. Tho union award is registered under tho Act, and does not expire till tho end of January.' Tlio members voted in full cognisance of the penalties they aro liable to in the agreement. Tlio Pap&roa miners ceased work to-day. Matters are quiet. Tho crew of tho schooner Lily is loading timber, this being tho only work being done on tho whaxf, Tho Blackball miners are not out. _ It is understood tlioy decided to await a call from the Federation. Free labour, with the assistance of seamen, worked the Kittawa with 300 tons of coal until 6 o'clock, when the seamen and firemen, in response to a telegram from thoir union cot to work with freo labour, knocked off, adding that they would leave tho vessel, at the first port of discharge. Subsequently the officers worked tho winches.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1897, 4 November 1913, Page 9
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167GREYMOUTH & THE MINES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1897, 4 November 1913, Page 9
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