STATE MINE STRIKE.
By Telegraph—Press Association:' WESTPOHT, December 4. A working miner, acquainted with the conditions says the miners in the Westport district are very indignant at the Government because it will not concede at Greymouth the same conditions as prevail at Mokihinui and all over th's district. "At the same time," saya the not think there will be a general strike. A general ballot would have : to be and one never knows how the ballot would go, as tne miners in • this district feel any reduction in the , tonnage rate at Grey would sooner or later affect miners here. An authority » states that the annual conference at ■ the Miners' Federation asked Mr ' McKeizle to abolish trucking by • hewers at the State mine, and he said it was a matter tor the local management and the men to settle. The miner, interviewed, denies that trucking would cost £4,1)00; further, it would he impossible with one man working at the face tor the miners to earn 14s a day. He claims that the conditions and remuneration are bet l er io the Westpnrt district mines than at the Grey a..d State mine.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9668, 6 December 1909, Page 5
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191STATE MINE STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9668, 6 December 1909, Page 5
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