THE BLACKBALL STRIKE.
♦ _, (srEciAr. to "ran fresb.") GREYMOUTH. April 29. «J Mr Rogers, secretary of the Black* „ ball Miners' Union, writing in the "'£>tar v to-night. a:iys wry eniphaticsu- ,T ly that the company is willing to grant thirty minutes' crib time by reopening the main isiue at stake, viz., tlio , eight hours "baaik to bank , ' principle. The- miners contend that this was tbo •- ix\asl cau9i» of th« strike; therefore they will not discuss the ton htnirs' propoeai. and the Union will not &ign any agreement which dc.es not embody tlio "hank to hank*' principle, for which they have fought for All the same, the members of tlio Unitm ' are only too anxious to resumo work \ on the conditions Tia.niod. "
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13103, 30 April 1908, Page 8
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