The Evening star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1884.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4732, 7 March 1884, Page 2

The Evening star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1884.

A MEETING is announced to be held tomorrow evening, in connection with the Miner's Eight question, and doubtless a very warm.discussion will ensue in connection with the injustice done to many on the field. There can be no doubt that _a~ consideration of -tbc question will do good, if even only in causing a grievance to be ventilated; but those who are agitating, very justly, in the matter, must not rest assured that the expression of the feeling of a meeting will have any great weight in working a reform. More requires to be done. Decisive steps must "be taken by those interested, in a body ; steps which will ensure that the petitions of those making them will be heard; hence, union"^ is the only means by which such a consummation is to be readied. We have previously advocated the formation of a mining institute here, and such a formation would to a certain extent guard the interests of miners,, but when such ( subjects as the one ie question arise, more must be done by the miners in the direction. of self preservation than would be undertaken by an institution which would be formed principally for the benefit of science. We desire now to point out the advisableness of the institution of a Miners' Union, having for its objects the conservation of the interests of those upon whom we rely to make ours a payable field. There can be no strength without united effort, and many abuses may be strangled where unity prevails. Similar institutions exist on various goldfields, and all have a healthy influence;; not confining themselves merely to such selfish ideas as permeate the: bases -of: many trade unions, but partaking of the character of educational societies, in spreading knowledge connected with the mining industry, and helping, where the thing is properly earned out, to generally educate ttie members of it. We would, therefore, strongly recommend those who attend tomorrow night's meeting to form themselves into i body to protect the rights of miners. Let them take .a stand as a whole against any injustice attempted to be done to them, and _ there is a much greater probability of their wrongs being righted than if they kept on holding meetings (ill the end of time. Wot only the miners on Uiis field can stand as objectors, but a good example given to others will be followed, and the voice of the miners throughout the colony will not go unheeded.