MINERS ANXIOUS.
WITHDRAWAL OF RAILWAYS'
SUPPORT
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELIORAM.)
WHANGAEEI, February 14,
A serious climax has arisen in the local coal mining industry at Hikurangi by the dismissal, to-day of a ; further fifty men in.addition to' thirty last month. The Hikurangi Miners' Union, has telegraphed the Prime Minister asking for immediate relief by insisting on the utilisation of local coal in place of, the imported article. This coal'has been used continually.f or the past thirty years by the railways and other State enterprises. The union asks whether the Prime Minister will permit industry .to be crushed by Australian competition, entailing ' such ' serious 'consequences to progress and the development of the, north; They ask eould it be arranged for the existing Coal Commission to sit at Hikurangi to investigate conditions in the northern coalfields; The union asked Mr Massey to consider seriously• the question"' of introducing legislation to= restrain, the importation of Australian coal, .excepting in circumstances, when it was found absolutely, necessary. His immediate and favourable attention is sought.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18308, 16 February 1925, Page 10
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