THE COALMINES DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 17, 15 October 1919, Page 7

THE COALMINES DISPUTE

TIMBER-WORKERS' UNION'S RESOLUTIONS. By Telegraph-Press Association. Greymoutli, October 14. At the annual meeting'of the West Coast Timber Workers' Union, at which over a, hundred members attended, the following resolutions were carried:— "That this meeting views with alarm the attitude adopted by tho mine owners in refusing to again meet the miners' representatives with a view to coming to a settlement of the present dispute, and calls upon the Government to call a compulsory conference of both parties and if no settlement is arrived at lhar. the Government at once nationalise all tho coal mines worth nationalising, and set about in a businesslike manner tu deal with the discontent existing in the mining, industry by making the conditions of work and housing conditions more attractive.' - "That this meeting condemns the nitiiiido adopted by tho coal owners, who seem to this meeting to have the backing of the Government in trying to force industrial trouble in llbo hoiie of gaining some political advantage." " "That this meeting congratuli'.tes the Transport Workers' Advisory Hoard „n flie iilile manner in which (hey have conducted tho dispute up to now, and iirusls that Ihoir undying "efforts will bo rewarded by an amicable scltlcniiMit being arrived at."