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END OF THE COAL STRIKE

The decision of tho coal' miners to return to work and to jESandon the go-slow policy will be generally welcomed. It relieves a difficult situation, and saves the country from a struggle in which the miners would most certainly have been beaten, but which would have been a costly matter for the Dominion, and would have entailed widespread loss and suffering. For tho time being we are in tho dark as to the reasons for the change of front in the miners. Presumably tho arguments and the plain speaking of the Acting-Prime Minister (Sir James Allen) and his colleague the Minister of Mines have had some influence with the miners' delegates, and through them on the men. We can only hope that there has been no form of compromise which would concede anything to these law-break-ers who sought to take advantage of their country's peril to bludgeon Parliament and people into submission to their will. An insight into the methods in vogue amongst the coal miners is given by the disclosures made by counsel for the Grown at tho opening of tho case against certain men in Auckland yesterday. We cannot of course touch on the merits of these particular cases, which are still before the Court, but our readers can see for themselves, what has been going on in a general way throughout the coal-mining districts. . The public will await with very close attention any further information regarding tho reasons which influenced the miners in their decision to return to work They have now done the right thing, but wo have yet to learn that tho reason which prompted them is equally open to approval.

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3061, 24 April 1917, Page 6

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END OF THE COAL STRIKE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3061, 24 April 1917, Page 6

END OF THE COAL STRIKE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3061, 24 April 1917, Page 6

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