MT MORGAN TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1925, Page 3

MT MORGAN TROUBLE

Australia it N.Z. Cable Association

ALL EMPLOYEES OUT.

(Received this day at 10.28 a.tn.) BRISBANE. Sept. 11

At a mass meeting of the strikers at .Mount .Morgan it was urged thut ti telegram ha sent to the Home Secrelarv. .Mr rttopl'ord. asking tha no police reinforcements he despatched to Mount Morgan; also advocating that local police .should he requested not to interiere with the miners. The men are demanding that iihet the mine resumes that sttrlaee haud> lie paid t,he new basic wage ol £M .s, with a forty-four hours week and lorty hour week for underground employees. As tl result, of the lives being drawn at, the mine, the railway station and many other institutions drawing electric’ power therefrom. have beer plunged into darkness.

Hcpresciital ives of Hie engineers, ■arpeliters. engine-drivers and electricians reported l hat their organisations have unanimously decided t< stand behind the. miners and none ol their mimlu'r ivnuiir*t‘il on t.!<* after eight last night. It. was stated at a meeting that AD istorford had telephoned Hint the new l.usie wage would not apply to Mount Morgan. . • „ The president of the engiue-drivv i > union stated the President ol Uu Arbitration Court would visit .Mount Morgan and hear their claims on MottThe chairman ol the Disputes ( oni milt" Mr I ,vueh. interviewed, sac the basic wage at the mine was i,. lSs ltd. blit when the loss ot turn through holidays and t Ik* rout mini closing of the mine is taken into acee.iiiit the wage would not reae. L'h As per week for a year. Tn no ot fid place in Australia were the men asket to accept stub a miscranlc wage. M >inhers of 'the strike committee said they wanted the members ol M-it ford to join them, l.eeaese m the Ilockout the stall' mantled the mine kept it dry. also keeling the let <- » ■ all the property til good ouh ■ > the mine could !"• rc-opeiu >- a ■ , out's notice. The workers u-' > ,hat if such a thing were allowed o, |,liis occasion the lochout won < i " " indefinitely as the Stall deeded f stand by the company. a The meeting coiisideted , ml the feeling was. that stare modmate ’leans had been used w.lhuu success the onlv one wav to me. t H c ,,se was the forcing out the men whe still worked in tho mine.