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DENNISTON MINERS TO OBEY ORDER. EMERGENCY ACT INVOKED BY GOVERNMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WESTPORT, November 24. Following addresses by Messrs Devlin and McLagen, president and secretary respectively of the New Zealand Federation of Miners, and the receipt of a telegram from the Minister of Mines, Mr Webb, that the Government, under the Emergency Act ordered the miners back to work, the Denniston miners, at a mass meeting, adopted a resolution that under Government compulsion the Denniston miners will resume work on Monday.
In the meantime, the executive, with Mr Devlin and Mr McLagen, will interview Mr Glendining, mining manager for the Westport Coal Company at Denniston, and ask him not to aggravate the position by utilising big boxes at present.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 6
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123BACK TO WORK Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 6
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