TIE COAL STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3047, 7 April 1917, Page 10

TIE COAL STRIKE

FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS MILLERTON, STOCKTON, AND DENNISTON MEN OUT . By ' Telegraph—Press Association. " YVestport, April 5. Meetings of miners were held at -Deii; niston, Millerton,, arid Stockton, when the Millerton and[Stocktonmen decided to striko, but Denniston doolinecTtb come out. Wcstaort, April 6. All the mines in tho Buller district were idle to-day. The Denniston men decided. last night to continue -work, but on learning to-day of tho decision of the Millerton and Stockton- men, held a mass meeting and decided not to resume work. MASS MEETING AT ■ REPEAL OF MILITARY SERVICE ACT DEMANDED. . ' Creymouth, April 5. , ..A mass meeting of miners ?,t Runanga yesterday passed, the following resolution: "We, members of tho Point Mizabeth, Liverpool, and State Collieries' Industrial Union of Workers, enter a protest against the Conscription Act by tho cessation of work, and demand the immediate ren'eal of the said Act." ■'■-._ N TERVIEff WITH. HON. A. L. HERDIiJAN PROSECUTIONS FOLLOW POLICE INVESTIGATIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. V n „ „ Opotiki, April 5. I. the Hon, A. L. Herdraan arrived hero last .night. Interviewed - by; a '"Guardian" representative concerning the arrests of prominent Minors' Union officials,_Mr. Herdman . said:. "These prosecutions have been commenced after careful investigation by the police into the methods adopted by. tho,men connected with the coal-mining industry on the West Coast of the South' Island and in tho Waikato district.' The proceedings are being taken under. the War Regulations relating to-sedi-tious strikes, made on February 16 jof .- the present year. These regulations'' made it an offence for persons: to-, coin-' bine to interfere with the production .of such a commodity as coal.. At tho pre--sent time I must decline to say- anything further, as the matter will come before the Magistrate for investiga- ' tion in due course."