NOTICES SERVED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 271, 29 August 1935, Page 3

NOTICES SERVED

THE STOCKTON MINE DISPUTE. FAILURE OF A CONFERENCE. (Per Press Association.) WESTPORT, August 28. The dispute at the Westport-Stock-ton Coal Company’s mine, which began on Sunday, continues. The latest development is tire issue of notices dispensing with the services of 65 men. A conference between the management; and the Miners’ Union executive on Monday afternoon was abortive, and yesterday the horses were taken out of the mine. The Manager (Mr T. McGhie) said it was the intention to work the mine on a single shift when the work was resumed, although if the. men were prepared to go back he was quite willing to work double shifts until the expiry of the notices a fortnight hence. He offered the miners’ deputation on Monday, he said, to carry on with a double shift if they would resume then, but their refusal had resulted in the decision to dispense with a number of the men, with a result that- those who remained would get much better time in the mine, having worked only halftime for a- considerable period. It is understood that the Illinois case in the dispute lias been put in the hands of the Duller Miners’ Central Committee.