THE BLACKBALL STRIKERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9085, 9 May 1908, Page 5

THE BLACKBALL STRIKERS.

BY TEIiEOHt.U'H CHRISTCHURCH, May 8. The two delegates who were sent to Chiistchurch by the Blackball Miners' Union to place the Union's suggestions before the directors of the Company, were received this morning. The suggestions placed before t»iu directors were stated by the delegatts to be those on which the Union would advise the men to return to work, and were as follows: on February 26th should be reinstated, and" that the mine manager should undertake not to victimise the seven men. 2. That the miners will agree to come out and truck when required for two hours out of the eight hours they are underground, the miners doing this work to be selected by rotatio u 3. The Union will allow two truckers to work overtime when required on special work which require expert hands. The crib time to be thirty minutes.

The ilirectors were agreeable to the following terms:—l. The eeven men dismissed to be reinstated, and the mine manager undertakes not to victimise their. 2. The crib time io be thirty minutes. 3. All other conditions to be as laid down in the award of the Arbitration Court, and the same as were in force previoi'B to February 26th, when the men went on strike. The directors had every reason to expect that the terms proposed would be accepted by the Union, as the only point on which there was any divergence in the terms was the j question of overtime. The directors were prepared together with the Union to state a friendly test case on the overtime question for the Arbitration Court to decide.

The delegates having stated that they had not power to bind the Union agreed to report the directors' suggestions. They leave on their return to the West Coast by to-morrow morning's train.

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