MINERS' WAGES
GENERAL INCREASE ASKED FOR . AT HUNTLY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) •; Auckland, November 27. The Huntly Coal Miners' Union, has. made representations to. the i.Taupiri Coal Mines, Ltd.,, i'or reconsideration of ; the wages s-:ale owing to . tlie altered conditions of work now prevailing. (Hie men explain that, using safety , lamps; and handicapped by the new,' system of, blasting, .it is not possible.for, them to make a living wage, under, .the/terms of the existing agreement. , Ifliey claim' also that tlio nnion, which was.a party to this agreement, was a. .unjon. ,pf only a few persons .formed for a/special purpose, whereas the union fnow-includes the main body Vof the miners. The scale proposed _by the vmioA' : provides for a general increase all with provision for a sliding scale; hi the different bords. .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2319, 28 November 1914, Page 9
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130MINERS' WAGES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2319, 28 November 1914, Page 9
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