PEOPLE GETTING TIRED.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1920, Page 1

PEOPLE GETTING TIRED.

OF STOPPAGES OF WORK. AT THE COAL MINES. (Our Parliamentary Cori-cspondbtifc.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 16. '“ilig Whblß country is’ tired of the continual stoppages of work at the coal mines,” said Mr Massey to-day. (A chorus o'f “Hear, Hear” came from the House.) “I have, during the past | six months, done everything possible to make matters run easily and smoothly for both the'coal miners and the people of the country, but I. am sorry to have to say tlidt up to the present, the indications suggest I have not been particularly successful. It seems to me that a lot. of the work I have done, has been practically thrown away. It is evident that there is some influence beyond what has been going on at the mines. I have been informed, on the very best authority, that the great majority of the miners are thoroughly loyal, patriotic and sensible men, and I believe that to be the case, but they seerii to be in the hSndk of a miribfity, whdke influence is bad, as regards both the miners and the country. Mi- Jftassey added that tire prospects of a settlement in the northern mines looked brighter to-day, than they did twenty hours earlier. He hoped that the dispute would soon be settled and that the Dominion would be able to get the coal it required from its own mines.