HUNTLIY DIRECTORS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1952, 8 January 1914, Page 6

HUNTLIY DIRECTORS.

WILL NOT REINSTATE WITHOIII DISCRIMINATION. \ (By TcJejraph.—Press . Association.) .- Auckland, JfaOTijrj ,, 7.' One man afc If sintly y-cste'rda'jv it is alleged, seized a policeman's horse by the hridle, and, iipon dismenr.ttnK, Constable Taylor, was kicked on the sliins and about thc'liands. As a result, a man named William' Foreshow, n.acd 22, was arrested and iia.knn to the poli-.o station. He appeared at crntrt ■ thi* morning, charged with assaulting, Goft.stabld Taylor,' whilo the latter wae in iho execution of bis duty, by kicking him oh tlie sliins. The accused .isko-j for a remand for seven days in order to secure legal advice. The EenHi granted a remaiKl flf two days, b.iil being fixed in two curoties ef £10 eacli. This morning the. workers proceeded to tlui mine without any in'orrnption, and the police bad a particularly easy time. Picketing was not <".f an nqtivo nature. At a full meeting of the directors of tlio compahy tills 'aftemoon the following resolution was arrived at, in anfiwer top deputation of nuT, at Huntjy, expressing their wiliinrriT'ss to return nnil inin the new union if the company would rchißtatP the tnesi wivhoiit difc'rimination: "After oarefii.Uy Mnsidcrins tlie prujwinls .submitted by the dopiitalion. Tim directors cnuiiot sco their way to givo effect Ui iho proposition as there is .i small percentoro of men on strike, who na>o with set purpose acted a part, .inimical to tlio'company's interests, and itliom the directors ff-o'i it would bo ivmtlvissble tu. re-em-ploy.". .

WHEN THE WHISTLES BLEW.'. Huntly, January,?. Onl.T tliivty men returned! to work at tlio Huntly mines yesterday. TJ.h i ss included sixteen minora, fivo tfueWs, nml nine casual.haiifls, Those, with 71 engine-drivers, deputies, and mechanics who reinninefl loyal tn tho conipaiiy right tliroiigli, nmdo 101 actually working;. Whon tho whistl&s blow this morning onn now liaud put in an apixwrfincf, hiit tlirep wlio turnccMo yestof day were absent. Only 28 therefore stnitod io-day. Tlio.mcH consider this fallins-olf a distinct virtory. Tlio rompan.v offirials atlriliuf-o it to the fact Hiat. th? niajorit.T of th<» stritwre wore airaitinn; tho decision of the directors to-ttay before acting.