MINERS' CONFERENCE STANDING FIRM.
LOXUON, Feb. 29,
"l'lie -Miners' Conference to thi.y resolved' lo maintain the demands-, inciuding schedule rates, for .each district for an individual minimum wage. Thy strikers are observing a holiday spent without a display of ill feeling. The Admiralty is discussing the purchase of some South Wales eollieriesi. Government has drafted a 15111 establishing wages 'boards, comprised of coal-owners and men, for the settlement of a mi'nini'um ( \vage, with Mr Asquith as uuipirc. In the event of a deadlock it is expected that Labour will support the Hill and that the Opposition will not oppose it. There arc eight thousand miners idle. The miners' leaders are jubilant at Government's recognition of thojprinciple of the minimum wage.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5776, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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120MINERS' CONFERENCE STANDING FIRM. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5776, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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