RELEASE OF IMPRISONED MINERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1917, Page 4

RELEASE OF IMPRISONED MINERS.

TTHK GOVERNMENT CONDITIONS. (From Our Own Correspondent). Wellington, May 8. TUe conditions attached to the release of the recently, imprisoned miners go a good deal furth'er than was at first Indicated. It appears from a statement made by the Jiini&ter for Justice .tanky that the bond into which the men entered before they were released itom gaol binds them not to take part in any sttlka or.to encourage or procure a atrjke wftnin the next twelve montSJ». !,J3j| penalty for a breach of ihe bond is return to prison in addition to tfte of £SO. -The bond cover* any fart in; or 'encouragement of the go slow policy), so fc that the miners' leaders affected by &is arrangement are bound to good \bei haviour. ' The next incident in the coal dispute will be the conference of mineowners and miners' delegates, which is to as'sftmbW in Wellington on Thursday of this week. What will happen there It would be rash to prophesy. The miners have had a setback in the initial stages of their agitation for increased wages and improved conditions, but it does not appear that they have abandoned any part of their claims. Their representatives say, indeed, that the claims are to be pressed strongly, and they may be encouraged by the fact that the Government brought about the conference as .one of the terms of settlement of the recent strike. The mineowners are not likely to be any more willing to make big advances in 'wage* suu they iftn when thej last jpet the -union, delegate^