WEST COAST STRIKES
n PAPAROA AOT MILLERTON MINERS RESUMING. There was some uneasiness in certain circles yesterday over the attitude of coal-miners on Jhe West Coast 1M men at the Papaxoa mine (Greymouth) were out owing to a grievance no one knew much about at tn . .end,.and tl 9 miners at Millerton (the Wertportttg by their own union to pay a levy to aid their comrades who had: su& in big strike ofast year in Australia, and some of them had Hred of paving their contributions. The. S?n JSentfy found itself unable tocollect, and it was thought that by striking they might induce the company to make the men pay up. The cmpany naturally knows nothing of the fen, and in any case holds that its collection is purely a domestic matter concerning the members of the union and no one else. • , • News was Tcceived yesterday that the men at the Paparoa mine are to resume work to-day. TfJE MILLERTON TROUBLE. MEN RESUMING WORK TO-DAY. By Teloeraph-Press Association. Westport, March 7. . The millers at the Westport Coal Company's Millerton mine who objected to pay a levy on behalf of Australian victims of the recent strike have now all paid the levy, and work will be resumed at Millerton to-morrow.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 145, 8 March 1918, Page 4
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209WEST COAST STRIKES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 145, 8 March 1918, Page 4
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