THE COAL INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1922, Page 2

THE COAL INDUSTRY.

ALL THE MINES WORKING. NEW AWARDS OPERATING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Operations in the various mining districts are now once more in full swing after the Christmas and New Year holidays and work is stated to be proceeding satisfactorily. Some miners resumed on January 4 and others day by day during the week following, until practically every mine in. the Dominion has now re-opened. The miners in the Nightcaps district, who ceased work on December 1 as a protest against the new award filed -by the Arbitration Court, commenced work on Thursday under conditions prescribed in the new award, and operations are reported to be proceeding steadily and satisfactorily. The stoppage of work which occurred at Millerton on January 5 has also terminated, the men resuming yesterday morning. Commenting upon the general situation sb far as the mining industry is concerned Mr. T. O. Bishop, technical adviser and acting-secretary to the New Zealand Mine-owners’ Association, remarked that the new system evolved under the awards recently filed seemed to be working out very satisfactorily, especially considering that the miners had only .just changed over from the conditions of the old agreements to those of the new awards. The change over had been accompanied by remarkably little friction and the men were*' apparently settling down to work in the best possible spirit.