BLACKBALL STRIKE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9111, 2 April 1908, Page 8

BLACKBALL STRIKE.

Per Press Association. Wellington, April 1. The Wellington Bookbinders and Paper Rulers Society considered a letter to-night asking for assistance for the Blackball strikers. It was resolved that the Union being in favour of conciliation and arbitration as of settling industrial disputes, cannot see its way to support the Blackball miners in their defiance of the law.. Auckland, April 1. 3 Mr Hickey, the miners’ delegate from Blackball, addressed the Trades and Labour Council to-night, plaoing the men’s case before them. He attacked the Wellington press, and said they had made most bitter and unjust attacks on the Union. The men had not asked for alteration in crib-time, and he challenged the press or the official of the mine to produce any proof that they had done so. They had simply adhered to what was a general rule throughout the Dominion. He declared that the mine was shockingly ventilated , and complained of the method of inspecting mines. The Labour Council carried a resolution to afford moral and financial assistance to the strikers.