THE BLACKBALL STRIKE.
SOCIALIST RESOLUTIONS." I
(PEESS ASSOCIATION TELEOIUMB.) ' r^f^ DUNEDIN, April S»J $M Mr Fitzgerald, organiser of cialist party, addressed a nvoetingiet* t gf to-night. A resolution calling Oα Governor to resume possession of lands and minerals held , by the Bl*ck-£W ball Company, was earned, also tn*-~g|| following:—'"That thia moetmg tmw*W with alarm and disapproval the of the Hon. Mr Millar m denying ih» ■>$&, Blackball miners employment on .the <-~m Government railwaye, and we oonssi* t Kuoh introd'uetion of the boycott the Government is tyrannical in extreme, and a violation of the liberty hst of t'hetajopayers to obtain equal op">< portiHiities of employment/ were about 150 people present. WELLINGTONj April 20. *M At a meeting of Socialists hold iMftJiL evening it was resolved:—'TUiai meeting of Wellington citizens upon the Governor, as representing tb**£*J Crown, to resume the lands at ball at present held on sufferance, *ai work the minerals there ttndor the oto?\ % ditions prevailing at SeddonrtUo the other State mines." *£?>*,
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13095, 21 April 1908, Page 8
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