LABOUR TROUBLES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 121, 15 February 1919, Page 9

LABOUR TROUBLES

THE COAL MINERS

STATE MINE STILL IDLE

Tho workers at the State coal mine aro still "out." They stopped work originally in support of a demaud that a doctor should be provided 'for tho' district. This difficulty has been got over, but tho men are demanding now the reinstatement of some workers who were dismissed. in connection with the recent trouble at Blackball. Tho Government is makmg no move pending the meeting of the National Disputes Committee next week. Tho men at the Taupin mines, who did not work on Thursday in consequence of a shortage of trucks, were at work under ' normal conditions yesterday. The Railways Department states that the shortage was due to the necessity of using /•'. largo numbers of trucks to secure, the quick discharge of colliers, carrying coal urgently required. f i Work is proceeding normally at Black- : ball, and it is stated that the miners :whoso reinstatement is demanded by the State minors have-left the district.

, THE TROUBLE AT HUNTLY . ' MEN RESUM2 WORK. • ' By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, February 14. An adequate supply of trucks. was available at the Extended mine at.Huntly to-day, and consequently the coalminers who refused, to work on Thursday resumed to-day. The Minister of Railways has given an assurance that sufficient trucks will be THE RAILWAY MEN REPRESENTATIONS TO THE ..MINISTER, ' Representatives of the Locomotive.. Engineers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association had a further interview with the Minister of Railways (Hon. W. H. Herries) yesterday afternoon. The Minister informed a Dominion reporter subsequently/ that the locomotive men had agreed to see him again in March, after he had • prepared the proposals that he intended to submit to Parliament. There were three railway workers' organisations to be considered—namely, the Railway Officers' Institute, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and the Locomotive Engineers, Firemen, and Cleaners' A,ssociatiori, and any revision \of wages necessarily would affect all these organisations. The locomotive men, said the Minister, had already placed their requests before him very fully. Representatives of . the Railway 'Officers' Association would interview him on Monday next, and representatives of tho A.S.R.S'. on Thursday, next. Then his officers would study the whole position and prepare a revised; schedule of wages, which lie w;as prepared' to:6U'bmit to the societies before presenting -it to ■ Parliament.- The sanction of Parliament had. to bo secured before any increases were-made, the existing schedule of wages being embodied in the Act.