COLLIERY HOLD-UP

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20012, 10 August 1939, Page 16

COLLIERY HOLD-UP

I DISPUTE BETWEEN MINERS TRUCKERS TAKE A HAND REFUSAL TO START RENOWN PIT IDLE (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Owing to a stop-work meeting to consider n dispute between two pairs of miners, no work was done at the Renown Mine. Huntly, yesterday. The meeting began before the men were to have begun work for the day, bu*. continued until 9.30 a.m. at which time the truckers decided that as they would not be paid for a full shift they would not begin work. The dispute between Ihe miners, which concerned the distribution of. skips in the mine, reached an acute position and it was decided to place the matter before a stop-work meeting. The truckers are paid 22s 6d a day, whereas the miners are paid according to the coal they get out. The truckers yesterday considered that they must lose part of their pay through the delay, whereas the miners could, by extra effort, secure their full day's wages. Consequently, they did not ibegin work and the miners also had to return home. It was stated that owing to the rush of orders the men would probably have been allowed to begin work after the meeting. The mine was expected to resume work to-day. The Glen Afton and Macdonaid mines were working again yesterday alter two days of idleness. The men went back to work in accordance with the decision 'o continue pending the carrying out of negotiations regarding the dispute over the dismissal of an aged employee.