THE BROKEN HILL STRIKE
(, FUNDS COLLECTED IN NEW . ; ; ZEALAND. ! Mr. J. B. Williams, who has been in New- Zealand for the last four months collecting funds in aid of the miners who are 011 strike at Broken Hill, stated to a Dominion reporter yesterday that v unionists in New Zealand had subscribed j between ,fBOOO and to the Distress Fund. Mr. Williams said that the strikers were still as determined as they were 17 months ago to secure the redress of their grievances, particularly in respect to the demands for a six-hour day and compensation for contracting in- | dustrial diseases. It was possible that i the trouble .at Breken Hill might bo . j settled in tho course of a few days, but if it was not, then he would proceed to South Africa next week to endeavour ; to raise money thero for Distress Fund, llis mission to South Africa would ! be at tho instance of both the Australian and New Zealand Miners' Federations, ; ; which were affiliated bodies. |
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 311, 25 September 1920, Page 7
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167THE BROKEN HILL STRIKE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 311, 25 September 1920, Page 7
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