MINERS WANT SAFETY LAMPS. SYDNEY, September 27.
All the southern collieries were idle • to-dav, owing to the men deciding to I stop work one day each week, until I electric safety, lamps are installed. In view of this, the Southern Coal ! Proprietors’ Association sent a letter to the men’s representative, stating j that, as a conference had been nr- j ranged between tbe Minister of Mines, '■ tpe proprietors, and tbe men, on the ] subject of electric safety lamps, the j Association regarded tbe men’s action ns a now method of attempting to imposo the “dnrg.” They stated that unless the men give an undertaking by Monday next to work full time, the whole of the southern mines will be 1 rfeosod. !
AVlictj informed of the owners’ deei- i sirm. Mr Willis (Secretary of the New South Wales Coal Miners’ Union) said that tlie conference with all the colliery proprietors had been arranged for Friday next to discuss tbe deficiency , question, and unless that were satis- I fnctorily settled, the Union would give ; fourteen days’ notice of its intention ] to cease work. j
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1922, Page 1
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182MINERS WANT SAFETY LAMPS. SYDNEY, September 27. Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1922, Page 1
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