MINING DISPUTE.
MEN- FAIL TO ESTABLISH CLAIM. (r&'ESS ASSOCIATION TELEGSii:.; IN"Y ERCARGILL, isovember IS. A civil action of considerable interest to miners in Southland and elsewhere, being the sequel to a dity. pute between the management and men of the Linton Coal Company, occupied tho attention of the Magistrate's Court to-day. Eleven miners claimed varying sums, the difference in each case between the minimum shift wage on tonnage rates, and the amounts they alleged they had been able to earn since the cutting and holing regulations had been insisted upon. Such was the volume of evidence presented that the Court was obliged to resume for some time this evening. Mr H. J. Macalister, for the defendant company, contended that a go slow policy at the Linton mine and not the new regulations had resulted, in a decreased output and- a consequent drop in wages. After hearing evidence, the Magistrate said plaintiffs had failed signaliv to prove their case, and non-suited plaintiffs and granted costs to the defendant company.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20089, 19 November 1930, Page 2
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