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STRONGMAN MINE TO REOPEN . (P.A.) G PLYMOUTH, March 12. The Strongman mine, which was idle on Friday owing to the refusal by thd management of payment to a miner for operating a face jig besides - trucking coal hewn by his mate, will resume to-morrow, the dispute having been settled in favour of the miner. A union deputation to meet the Minister, the Hon. W. Sullivan, and departmental officials, including Mr C. H. Benney, Under Secretary, and ‘C. J. Strongman, superintendent, on Saturday when it was decided that the remuneration rates operating since the* jigging rates were included in the national agreement must operate, and that miners trucking only two flat sheets had to be paid the "contract rates and also the jigging rates. The Miners’ Union, in a statement, said that if a settlemeht had not been reaehed'this dispute would have affected every union in the Dominion.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 126, 13 March 1950, Page 3

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DISPUTE SETTLED Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 126, 13 March 1950, Page 3

DISPUTE SETTLED Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 126, 13 March 1950, Page 3