COLLIERIES IDLE
DEADLOCK AMONG THE MEN. By Telegraph—Press Association. Creymoutii, March 21. After a meeting of the union, the State collieries this morning announced that there would be no work tomorrow. It is understood the deadlock among the irien themselves still exists. The Paparoa mine was idle yesterday, and again to-day. The trouble, is over a driver of a liorso refusing to obev orders to drive, as he alleged, a horse which was i ufferiug- ftorn an offensive disease. Hβ walked out of tho mine on .Friday last, and did not present himself for :vork the following day, alleging that it was a' regular holiday. He ssid it was news -to him, when told by the Military Servico Board, at Greymouth on. Tuesday last that his services had been disposed of at the mine, and that the Miners' Union had taken the matter up.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 157, 22 March 1918, Page 6
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144COLLIERIES IDLE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 157, 22 March 1918, Page 6
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