TROUBLE AT A MINE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 October 1913, Page 5

TROUBLE AT A MINE.

THE MOUTH TO MOUTH QUESTION.

AN ALLEGED LOCK-OUT.

MEN DOWN TOOLS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WESTPORT, Last Night.

Trouble occurred at the Stockton mine morning question of wfait constituted the mine mouth the. new workings. The Men wiftt their time htegan from their entering the mouth of the old mine, whereas, the management claimed that it began from the time of entering the mouth of the new mine. The section of men employed 1 at the tetter works turned out in accordance with their contentions, but were ordered off home, whereupon all the men employed at the mine, numbering -about two hundred, tools,"- stating that a lock-»o®t had •occurred.

The company only recently opened the new mine, the mouth of which is about a . mile and a half distant from •the mouth of the old mine/ At present only a siniall number nf men are working there, -but it is hoped before long to have a large number employed; The company's cars, in which the •men* travel, -coyer,the- distance..; 49 ten' minutes, so that :tlie Joies iper man per'day in c6ming;ftnd going, if the demands are concede®, twenty minutes.

; ; The company claim that _the agree■inent interpreted, and "that t®. grant the demand made would' seriously hamper the financial working of the mine.