COAL TROUBLE.
POSITION AT KAITANGATA. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Jan. 20. At a stop-work meeting of the Kaitangata miners yesterday a letter was read from the Kaitangata Oil and Coal Company, stating that, owing to the failure during the last three days of many of the company’s employees to start work at the proper time, the management notified ,ail employees that the mine would be open as usual for work today and any men failing to start at the proper time, except for sickness, would be considered to have left the company’s employ. It is stated that lamps were refused yesterday afternoon by the manager and no men on the afternoon shift entered the mine. The men*are determined to stand firm. Only three or four men on the day shift are working, and, Tt the night shift join the majority, matters will reach a crisis.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19210121.2.38
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1921, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
145COAL TROUBLE. Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1921, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in