STRIKE AT OTIRA.
QUESTION OF PAY INVOLVED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christohurch, Last Night. The tunnel workers at the Arthur's Pass end of the O.tira tunnel have been "but" sinca last Thursday week, July 1, when their contract expired, and the men, numbering 33, refuse to go back to work unless they are granted the same rates of pay as the men at the Otira end. The;- claim they have now come into the inferior class of country for which the Otira rates were fixed. The Minister of Public Works, the Hon. J. G. Coates, states lie has ordered a report upon the subject, but the men ask for,, quicker settlement, and two delegates to-day asked the Canterbury Progress League and the local members of Parliament to take the matter up. They 1 state no progress has been made in the tunnel for six weeks.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1920, Page 5
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144STRIKE AT OTIRA. Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1920, Page 5
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