COAL MINES IDLE OVER WAGES DISPUTE
HAMILTON, Last Night. The MaeDonald and Glen Afton coal mines were again idle to-day. Ktop work meetings at both mines were held this morning until about 9.45 o'elock, the dispute at MaeDonald being the subject for diseussion. The dispute, which concerned the payment of a screenhand arose on Wednesday. Foliowing their meeting the men at Glen Afton decided to rernain idle until their request was granted by the management and the MaeDonald men also decided to remain idle in sympathy. The men from both mines returned to their homes.
On Wednesday a dispute arose whcn one of a pair of screenhands attained the age of 19 years and conseauently became entitled to higher pay. The other screenhand, aged 17, demanded the same rates of pay as his companion and entered a protest. Most of the other screenhands were in sympathy with the younger man and .returned to their homes. The Glen Afton branch of the miners' union is requesting the management to place the screenhand | aged 19 in other work in the mine ' and. replace him with a seventeen-year-old youth. The management refuse to complv with this request, • claiming that the 19-year-old screenhand 1 ag been giving gcod service in his present position for the past two years. The management also eontends that it has the right to place men where it thinks the men will be most suited.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5317, 1 February 1947, Page 6
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235COAL MINES IDLE OVER WAGES DISPUTE Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5317, 1 February 1947, Page 6
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