INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. London, May 1. A conference at Liverpool of representatives of the seamen and firemen agreed to appoint a conference early in May to deal with the dispute. Meanwhile the men will rejoin their vessels on the present terms. THE GREEN ISLAND DISPUTE. Dunedin, May 1. Matters in connection with the dispute between the men employed at Christie's Green Island mine and the employers arc unchanged, both sides persisting in a determination not to waver. The men say that they are determined not to return to work unless a jig is erected, while the owners say that there is absolutely no reason why the men should not start work again. Mr Christie, the mine manager, states that a jig as proposed originally was only to take cord from above the present workings, and all the men underneath would still have had to truck on the roads, a position which the men clearly understood when the jig was talked about. The mine is there to start work in when they like, he concluded, on the same conditions as previously, and if they do not like to start it can be sealed
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4, 2 May 1912, Page 5
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200INDUSTRIAL UNREST. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4, 2 May 1912, Page 5
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