The Blackball Strike.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Greymouth, This Day. The Wharf Labourers' Union has decided to continue support to the wives and children of the Blackball trikers. A meeting of the Tyneside miners has been called for Friday to reconsider their action on Saturday of withdrawing their support from the miners at Blackball. "One of the strikers" writing in the Grey River Argus, regarding Saturday's meeting at Blackball, states that the miners were told before the meeting that they were going to get 30s a week for each man, 10s for a wife, and 5s for each child. The ' desire to have the money without working was too strong, and consequently the opportunity for a settlement passed, and we are going to continue to live on the money of others. The meeting passed off nicely and we all returned later and recieved our weekly allowance, some of us getting up to the sum of £4 55."
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Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3757, 14 April 1908, Page 2
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156The Blackball Strike. Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3757, 14 April 1908, Page 2
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