THE BLACKBALL STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 73, 21 March 1908, Page 2

THE BLACKBALL STRIKE.

STILL NO CHANCE IN THE „ POSITION. Per Press Association. Greyuioutli, Last Night. 'The miners held a meeting at Blackhall this afternoon, but nothing of a definite nature was done. Mr. Fitzgerald, the socialist agitator, attended the meeting and addressed the miners, advising them not on any account to give way. The Argus reporter interviewed the manager in reference to the paragraph appearing in the evening paper as follows:—"There seems to be some possibility of an early settlement of the dispute, as the company has offered (one of the men- now on strike informs us), in addition to the offers made after the close .of the sitting of the Arbitration Court, to donate half of the £75 fine indicted on the union." The manager gives the statement that the company have offered to pay half the fine an emphatic denial. He does not knr,v where it originated, but the .company were no party. The company are prepared to take the dismissed men back and allow twenty minutes' crib time, further than this they will not go. The union will hold a meeting on .Monday evening at 10 o'clock, and until then there can be no change in the position.