MINES IDLE.
HUNTLY COALFIELDS. MEETING OP MEN TO-MORROW. TWO POINTS Of DISPUTE. (Special to Time*.} HUNTLY, Tuesday. Two mines in the Huntly coalLeid. McDonald and Glen Afton, are idle today, and a meeting of the owners and tile men will be held to-morrow morning to discuss the two questions in dispute. The McDonald Mine was idle yesterday as the result of a carpenter being given a bricklayer's work to do and tlie Glen Afton men refused work to-day because there has been & transference of a man from one mine to the other. The owners state that th3y hava given a man who is employed at the McDonald Mine work to do at the Glen Afton Colliery, while they have shifted & man from the Glen Alton to the McDonald Mine. They hold that they have a perfect right to place the men where they desire. Union officials stated to a Waikato Times representative to-day, that the main cause of the dispute was one of wages. They said that a oarpenter had been given bricklaying work'Sealing up a pit In the mine and they contend that while occupied on this work he should receive a bricklayer's wage* and not a carpenter’s wages.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 6
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200MINES IDLE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 6
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