UNREST AMONG' MINERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3145, 24 March 1909, Page 5

UNREST AMONG' MINERS.

STRIKE ALLEGED TO BE THREATENING. By Telegraph—Press. Association. WANGANUI, March 23. The "Wanganui Chronicle"" says: —"We learn on what we have every reason to believe is good authority that there is every prospect of a strike of coal miners on a large scale taking place in the near future. Our informant states that for some time past there has been considerable unrest among the miners of the West Coast; that a number of agitators are busily at work, and that everything is practically in readiness for the call. It is further stated that the mineowners are alive to the position, and are taking combined action to meet the threatened emergency. Our informant further alleges that all the elements of one of the most, serious' industrial upheavals the Dominion has yet experienced are centred in the movement now in pi-ogress, and that, unless wiser counsels prevail, a crisis entailing serious loss upon the workers, and extending far beyond the mining industries, is practically inevitable. 'You may publish this statement if you think fit,' concluded our informant; 'it you do you will provoke a chorus ot 'Yes' and 'No' from all parts of the Dominion, but time will prove that the information I have given you is founded on fact/"