PROCESSIONS AT HUNTLY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3096, 20 January 1909, Page 5

PROCESSIONS AT HUNTLY.

HOW MINERS AMUSE THEM-. SELVES. NO VIOLENCE ANTICIPATED. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND. January 13. A second conference Hantl/ miners and companiji relative to the employment of four men who submitted to examination, take 3 plica this afternoon. Ihera are tiree hundrsd men still on strike. They declare they will not enter the mine until these four, who ar3 charge-firers, have been placed in positions where they will have 110 control over the men. Processions are hsld daily, men and women waving flags and bannerettes, but there has been no molestations or stone-throwing. The president of the union anticipates no violence unless drafts of police appear. POSITION SLRIOUS. Later. The Huntly coal miners decided today, after a conference witn the directors of the Taupiri Coal Company, to remain out. The position is therefore more serious than ever. The Company agreed to reinstate three men now under suspension, and also to disrate une only of the four whom the union wish reduced in status. It was plainly stated to the union that tlie Company would make no further concessions. The men, at a mass meeting, refused the Company's offer, reiterating the demand that the four alleged "blacklegs" should be disrated and not again employed by the Company.