DISAPPOINTED STRIKERS.
ADJACENT UNIONS KEI'USE TO JOIN. Per Press Association. ! Cireynujuth, Last Night. r !.he Jilackba 11 miner.s received a great disiippuintiiu'iit on Saturday, when the Tynoide mini-is, by a large majority, rcfuSod to strike. Delegates from Blackball arrived to attend and addresu the meeting, but were refused admitowing to their not being members of tin* union.
Mr. Kussell, a director of the Tyneside Company, and also a member of the union, attended the meeting, and pointod out the groat loss that it would incur by file mine being closed down.
The vote against to strike was 78 to 12.
The news was received in Blackball with disgust, it being understood that tho Tyneside miners would stand by the Blackball men.
A meeting of the Wharf Laborers' Union was held this afternoon to consider the question of striking out of syiupatky with the Blackball miners, nnil it was unanimously decided not to strike,
and that a levy of live per cent on the men's total wages be made for the maintenance of tho women and children. The sum of .Co 0s (id was collected ill the hall.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 85, 30 March 1908, Page 2
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187DISAPPOINTED STRIKERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 85, 30 March 1908, Page 2
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