THE MINERS' DEMANDS.
STATEMENT BY SEMPLE.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Westport, August 10. In a statement to the Westport Times Mr Semple said that the coal miners of N»w Zealand had expressed their opinion iby alballot, the purport of -which he did not at present know. The result of the ballot would be mi&do public in a few days. He had been right through the (Dominion and, from wha* he had seen arid from what he knew privately, he had not the slightest doubt that the miners would do the right thing. It had been asserted by the Coal Owners' Association that a small coterio of union officials was at the head of matters in Wellington, but the ballot no* taken by the miners would show that they were quite (prepared and fully qualified to mind their own business.
_Mr Semple wanted it to ho emphav sised that, no rngbter what the result of the Fallot, the men would still be quite prepared to leave the matter in dispute ta open public sentiment.
The keting-Prime Minister remarked to-day that the coal dispute was under consideration by Cabinet, but he k-i nothing further to say at pftttAtj
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1918, Page 5
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195THE MINERS' DEMANDS. Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1918, Page 5
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