WORK AND WAGES.
THE GREEN ISLAND DISPUTE. By Telegraph—Prass Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Matters in connection with the dispute between the men employed at Christie's Green Island mine and the employers are unchanged, both sides persisting in a determination not to waver. The men say that they arc 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 coal from above the present working, 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 up. I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 259, 2 May 1912, Page 8
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159WORK AND WAGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 259, 2 May 1912, Page 8
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