INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1646, 5 December 1916, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL TROUBLE.

COAL STOPPAGE AT PAPAROA

Greymouth, Dec. 2.

The Paparon miners at Roa. ceased work to-day, partly out of ■sympathy with the Blackball men and partly owing to a dispute regarding pillar workings. The management in the latter connection are prepared to pay time rates foxpillar workings, as are paid at the Liverpool Slate mine, where the seams are considered similar. The Paparoa miners are holding a meeting to-morrow. Greymouth, Dee. 2. At a meeting of State coal miners last night, a report was received from the delegates who had been in Welling!on in connection with the dispute and the restricted output conditions that have been prevailing for some weeks. As a motion that the restrictions he lifted was defeated, farther motions were refused, and the meeting dispersed without definite action being taken. A furl her meeting is to be held. Last night's meeting passed a resolution calling on the Minisler to exempt the headmaster of (he Ruuaiiga school, who was selected for active service in last week’s ballot on the ground Dial his services are indispensable. Nelson, Dee. 4. The minors at North Cape and Pnponga have struck. Their reason is stated to be a protest against conscription and also a demand for--171 per cent, increase in wages.About 120 men arc concerned.

' STATEMENT BY MINISTER. “The Blackball miners held a meeting on Sunday, at which they were addressed by the Miners’ Federation delegates,” said the Hon. J. Allen (Acting-Prime Minister) to a Times representative yesterday. “But no decision was arrived at, and they are meeting again tonight. I sincerely hope they will go hack to work. We have had word that the Pnponga- men have also come out because they are opposed to conscription and the Arbitration Act, and .because they want a 17i per cent, increase in wages. They have three strings to their bow.” The Minister for Mines (the Hon.- W. D. S, Macdonald) said that he had nothing to add to this statement. The State mines were working as usual.