THE STATE MINERS.
TROUBLE NOT YET SETTLED. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGftAM.) GREI MOUTH, March 16. The executive of the State Miners' Union conferred with those members'refusing,to pay the levy to assist the meil in Australia recently on strike. After a deal of discussion, during which the executive produced receipts to show that money had beeh fonvarded to Australia, it was intimated that the levy was teing reduced from 2$ to li per cent. Two of the resisters paid the levy, but thirty still declined. The genera! opinion at Runanga is that work will be resumed on Tuesday next. The loss in wages since Friday week amounts to £2000.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16163, 18 March 1918, Page 6
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