AT WORK AGAIN
MINE WORKERS RESUME OPERATIONS START TODAY DISPUTES COMMITTEE (Special to Times) HUNTLY, Monday Following Saturday’s decision that work should be resumed, the men of the Qlen Afton and MacDonald mines started operations this morning. The mines have been idle for several days, about 400 miners being out on account of a dispute concerning the wet-time payment of one McDonald worker. The dispute began on September 3, when 200 miners at the MacDonald mine decided not to work until the claim had been determined. After being idle for three days they started again on September 6. However, they stopped again last Wednesday and on Thursday the Glen Afton miners also went out in sympathy. A meeting on Saturday addressed by Mr C. L. Hunter, Labour Department Liaison Officer, and attended by about 250 miners from the MacDonald and Glen Afton mines, agreed unanimously that a national disputes committee should be set up as soon as possible to deal with the matter in dispute, and other points of difference which might arise.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21219, 16 September 1940, Page 6
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173AT WORK AGAIN Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21219, 16 September 1940, Page 6
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