Blackball Strike.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3761, 21 April 1908, Page 2

Blackball Strike.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Greymouth, Last Night. At a meeting of the Tyneside Miners' Union, held on Friday, it was resolved to rescind the resolution passed declining to support the Blackball strikers. A strike levy of five per cent on the wages earned is now made. After a stormy meeting the Brunner miners decided they had no sympathy with the Blackball miners. In order to prevent the women and children suffering, however, they decided to call a five per cent levy on the miners' wages. Mr Leitch, the mine manager, has challenged the delegates to prove that black damp, white damp, fire damp or sulpuretted hydrogen exists in any bore, level, or hoarding in .which the miners worked on the last day the mine was worked.