NON-UNION MINERS
THE TROUBLE AT WAIHI EXPLANATIONS AT A MEETING By Telecraph—Presa Association. Waihi, March 15. With regard to the mining trouble, last eve-niug Mr. Giles, Conciliation Commissioner, interviewed the eight men who withdrew from the union, and later these men had a meeting and passed a resolution that they were rightly entitled to exemption from membership by virtue of the fact that such exemption was agreed to by the union and by delegates who attended the conference at which the agreement was made, but as they consider it is the duty of delegates to admit to tho whole of the union the true facts of the position, they aro prepared to consider a proposal to again become members if such meeting is held and such admission is made.
A mass meeting is being called for tomorrow, at which the eight men have been invited. The meeting will be addressed by the Commissioner, and be open to (lie Press.
.SUNDAY'S MEETING Paeroa, March 16. As the outcome of the intervention of Mr. T. Hade Giles in an endeavour to bring about a settlement of the trouble existing between the mine owners and tho Hiiiws' Union a mass meeting of miners was held at the Waihi Union Hall this afternoon. The hall was filled. Mr. Gi!e.-9, in response to the request of the Miliars' Union and .of tho eight members who hod refused to become members of the unioii, addressed the meeting. He bti'.d that from tlie evidence furnished to him by all the parties concerned it was clear that the eight men were properly ontitk'd to exemption from joining tho union. These men had now asked for a public meeting so that a full explanation could be made, with a view of vindicurintr their action in remaining nonunionists to the public and members of tho union. This meeting, he trusted, would bo 6atiefied that these men had established their right to Te'main outside the union, and that being so, he felt confident (hat the exempted men would in due course join the union. Mr. H. A. Pipe, president, and one of the senior delegates, eaid that they had blundered in not making a full explanation to the. meeting of the union following tho conferenco with the mine owners, and he would now tender his resignation as president.
' The meeting had not finished when the telegraph office closed.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 147, 17 March 1919, Page 5
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397NON-UNION MINERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 147, 17 March 1919, Page 5
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