DEMONSTRATION BY MINERS
UGLY SITUATION AVERTED. WESTPORT, May 26. A huge demonstration by miners took place at Ngakawau to-day. Representatives of the Stockton Miners’ Union, about 20 in all, visited Charming Creek mine yesterday and requested the employees on contract to cease work. These men, who have been out of work for some time, refused to do so, and this morning a party of 200 or so Stockton and Millerton miners took part in a demonstration and visited the mine. Half a dozen members of the police force followed the miners to watch the position, and at the mine matters became so ugly that the police had to urge the contractors to cease work and meet all the parties at Ngakawau to discuss the position. While the conference was in progress the demonstrators stormed the hotel to get at the contract employees. Considerable damage was done, and but for the tactful way in which the police handled the delicate situation matters might have become very serious.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4029, 2 June 1931, Page 36
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166DEMONSTRATION BY MINERS Otago Witness, Issue 4029, 2 June 1931, Page 36
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