THE COALMINERS
BLACKBALL DISPUTE. MB MASSEY'S INTERVENTION. (special to "the priss.") "WELLINGTON, January 30. The Prime Minister has persuaded those who have been representing the mine-owners and the coal-miners that the Blackball dispute shall be referred to a tribunal of one from each side, and a charrman appointed by the Prime Minister.
It remains now for the representatives —Messrs Pryor and Arbuekie, respectively— to get their executives to consent to this arrangement. As the members of the two executives are in different parts of the country, tihey will have to be communicated with by means of the telegraph, so that the final decision regarding the willingness or otherwise to agree to the appointment of the suggested! tribunal may not bo known for a day or two. If agreement is reached on this point, tihe enquiry will take several days more, but meantime the miners, as a guarantee of their good faith, must drop the go-slow policy.
Until the result of the tribunal enquiry is known, it will be impossible to say whether there is to be peace or not, hut at present there is hope that .oil will bo well.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) D[JN'EDIN, January 30. The position at Kaitangata is unchanged, and the mines are still idle.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17057, 31 January 1921, Page 6
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