DISCONTENT AMONGST MINERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1919, Page 4

DISCONTENT AMONGST MINERS.

PLEA FOR GOVERNMENT ACTION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Greymouth, Last Night. At the annual meeting of the West Coast Timber Workers' Union, at which over a hundred members attended, the following resolutions were carried: That this meeting views with alarm the attitude adopted by mine owner.s in refusing to again meet the miners' representatives with a view to coming to a settlement of the present dispute, and calls upon the Government to call a compulsory conference of both parties, and if no settlement is arrived at that the Government at once nationalise all the coal mines worth nationalising and set about in a businesslike manner to deal with the discontent existing in the mining industry by making the conditions of work and the housing conditions more attractive. That this meeting condemns the attitude adopted bv the coal owners, who seem to this meeting to have the backing of the Government, in trying to force industrial trouble in the hope of gaining some political advantage. That this meeting congratulates the Transport Workers' Advisory Board on the able manner in which they have conducted their dispute up to now and trusts that their undying efforts will be rewarded by an amicable settlement being arrived at.