COAL TROUBLE.
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, June 17. The coal owners are working out a new age schedule based on an eight hours day. Indications are that the next development after the passing of the Hours Bill will be posting fresh notices in collieries announcing that work can be resumed immediately on these terms. The opinion is held in some quarters that whatever the leaders may say the men will then be ready for resumption, and once the breakaway begins it will progress irresistibly. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Labour correspondent says: In districts producing fifty per cent, of the coal output, the owners have undertaken to pay the pre-strike rates, on an eight hours’ dav, for the next three months.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1926, Page 2
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120COAL TROUBLE. Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1926, Page 2
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