COLLIERS FINED.
SEQUEL TO A STRIKE. 11,000 HANDS TO PAY. United Press Assn.—Elec. .Tel. Copyright. LONDON, August 14. Eleven hundred colliery and haulage hands, men and boys, at Doncaster ordered by the magistrates to pay three companies damages in sums ranging from 15s to £6 for a breach of contract after stoppages in which miners lost £30,000 in wages. It is alleged they struck because they refused Employment after the boys struck, the nightshift men contending it was the custom not to work if the afternoon shift had not worked.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 2
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90COLLIERS FINED. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 2
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