THE BLACKBALL TROUBLE.
SOCIALISTIC MEETING IN DUNEDIN. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, April 20. Mr. Fitzgerald, organiser for the Socialist party, addressed a meeting here to-night. A resolution calling on the Governor to resume possession of lands and minerals held by the Blackball Company was carried, and also tho following resolution: “This meeting views with alarm and disapproval the action of the Hon. Mr. Millar in denying tho Blackball miners employment on Government railways, and we consider such introduction of boycott by the Government is tyrannical in the extreme and a violation of the liberty of the taxpayer to obtain equal opportunities of employment.” There were about 150 present.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2170, 21 April 1908, Page 2
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