COAL DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 101, 22 January 1921, Page 6

COAL DISPUTE

NEGOTIATIONS PROCEEDING COAL OWNERS MEET IN WELLINGTON i The "go-slow” policy is being continued by the miners at the coal mines. The executive of the Coal Mine Owners’ Association met in Wellington yesterday afternoon, and later had an interview’ with the Prime Minister. The executive of the Miners’ Federation has also been in communication with Mr. Massey regarding his proposal that the dispute should be referred to a committee containing two representatives of each side, with an independent chairman. The position is that both sides have agreed to the appointment of this committee, subject to conditions. The nature of these conditions makes an immediate agreement difficult, and some further discussions will take place. The selection of a chairman is a difficulty. KIRIPAKA MINE TO CLOSE UNLESS "GO SLOW” IS ABANDONED By TelMtraph—Frew A«eoelatl«x Auckland, January 21. Colonel W. D. Holgate, liquidator of the Kiripaka Mine, has decided that the mine will be permanently closed down from Monday unless the "go-slow" policy is abandoned. This will throw 50 men out of employment, involving a loss of 180 tons of coal a day. ' POSITION IN OTAGO. Dunedin, January 21. Some of the Castle Hill miners came out to-day in sympathy with the Kaitangata men, but otherwise the position is unchanged 'he men are still holding slop-work meetings. Ten unionists are still >.t walk in defiance of them, and the mnn'ig mient still declines to interfere. i’roe edings have been very quiet and* orderly. but all the parties are ’ahing a very fim a;-d determined attit ide which offers no appearance of an early set’le-n.-nt. Other small mines m tl.e »pighbooih:od vre working as usual. TJib Taratu miners adopted the."go-slow policy u> sir pi'thy with Kaita.iga.a men, and have offered financial and mo-al assistance