MINERS’ CLAIM
FOR LOSS OF WAGES, 'Bv Telegraph—Press Association! INVERCARGILL, ‘Nov. 18. A civil action of considerable interest to miners in Southland and elsewhere, being the sequel to the dispute between the management and men of the Linton Coal Coy, occupied the attention of- the- Magistrate’s Court to-day.
■Eleven miners claimed varying sums, the difference in each case between the minimum shift- wage on tonnage rates and the amounts that they alleged that they had been able to earn since the outting and holing regulations had been insisted immi. Such was the volume of evidence presented that the Court was obliged to resume for some time this evening.
Mr H. J. Mac Alister. for tb° defendant comoanv, contended that a “go slow” policy at the' Linton mine, and not the new regulations, had resulted in a. decreased output, and a consequent drop in wages. " Af+er hearing the evidence, the Magistrate Raid that the plaintiffs I,r, d failed sienallv to prove their case, and he non-suited the plaintiffs, and granted costs to the defendant company.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1930, Page 6
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174MINERS’ CLAIM Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1930, Page 6
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