HIKURANGI MINERS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1932, Page 2

HIKURANGI MINERS

STAND AGAINST DISMISSALS,

(By Telegraph—Ver Press Association)

AUCKLAND, May 9

Mr A. Robinson (President of the Northern Miners’ Union) said the refusal of the coal owners to negotiate further untily the Hikurangi miners returned to work, was met with the suggestion that the negotiations .should bo gone on with so far as the Waikato mines were concerned, and that an endeavour be made to- settle the Hiku-rv-msri strike in the meantime. He explained that- the miners’ delegates were' being put to a great deal ol extra expense bv the adjournment. They would have to go home, and then return to Auckland, if the Hikurangi trouble was settled. The owners had given the men until Mar 16 to workunder the terms of the old agreement, but after that, the position would be indefinite. Tf the Hikurangi trouble was not settled by the date mentioned, the position so far as the Waikato miners were concerned, would he most .unsatistoctorv, as bv then no agreement would he in force. There is a difference of opinion as to when the present agreement between the owners and the men expires. The Union takes the iMew that it should remain in foree. until May 3U but t-lie owners consider it lias expired.

100 DISMISSED AT AIILLERTON

WESTPORT, .May 9

There were a further one hundred notices of dismissal issued at Mi Horton to-day to the miners, A big percentage of those dismissed are married men. To date a total of two hundred of the men engaged at the Millerton mine have been dismissed.