WEST COAST COAL MINERS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20272, 25 June 1931, Page 8

WEST COAST COAL MINERS.

DECISION NOT TO PAY J > LEVY.' | | : POSITION OP EMPLOTBBB. j f (SPECIAL TO TB3 PBESB.) j| Ijfc., GBEYMOTTTH, Jtmo 24. '■ * ¥'' Interesting developments are exp«ct«d c ■" on the West Coast coal-field, folhnrin* "■ ; .■ the decision made by the Hintra' -■ £'' Unions in the district not to pay tii '--'"- uneinploynient levy. It is stated, that" t " all the unions in the district tookabal. ' ; " lot on the question, on Tuesday, font ap»- £? fc parently the decision was not mads | : known until to-day. "., L'f The decision not to pay the 1 let* -, £' threatens to accentuate the present If trouble on the field, and the ntfneri» '' a employers, who are obliged by the term "•' S of the Unemployment Act to see that " 1 their employees pay the levy, are won- 1 | dering where they stand in the mitt*? -' |;i and what steps the Government trill £"' take to see that the Act is enforeejk Jj Legislation forbids the mine employer! - J '£ from deducting the levy from';t£i ;\\ miners' wages. -* .-£ , *"f The manager of one mine pointed o% ' ' > " yesterday that the employers had. Deli..l" placed in a very awkward position ■■ ' the decision, for under the Act anytfti--'. \ son who employs for more than. sasv '' - i days without the authority of tiwifc'.' 1' f employment Board, a worker wheals!" > A S more than one month in arreara ijita' - " $ his levy, is liable to a fine toot exceeS. l % ing £2O. The fact that the Government j I itself was a large employer of ni&ri' I I made the situation more piquant, \, + * j s Position at Blackball j | There has been.no further demontirfc. .1 | tion at Blackball by members of pi ' -'- : j | Blackball Miners' Union against',sl» -* '-\ % small party of co-operative miners ffaj .J ij are working the Blackball Coal '-Com*- ] I pany's freehold property. The boycott ' 1 of the picture theatre in the towallup .*j I continues, and on Tuesday evening '.'l 1 members of the union went' * ''-1 k theatre and found that there were jpfesv *•'s 1 ent children of the co-operative jp*jb»i \' : l | they again returned to theix I management of the theatre are in their decision to have tho '';3B main open to all-comers, and #ie gramme was shown to the cftildrea*;ln&.' C-SM u number of outsiders who attendeesThere, is no likelihood of wateraidj« at Greymouth.taking up an attiffide*.,- 3*» similar to that of the Westport ';£«§■ aiders, who refused to handle - ' jj}al' mined by co-operative or tribute auafeaX for the coal taken from" co-operative mine will be transpofted^nr'' ~4Wm rail to Christchurch. '■•"'ife '** jHI Production has not yet . A rtaJrftijj|at. / ' jßjf either the new Blackball mine. '&s«;.' - JfH the Briandale mine, wherait i&,aß(jradf MB that a party intends to WMfc'tl&qi»aj|p&v, «B| the tribute system. At; Bjfcnafle";?jfaj)." /Wm men are at present aerial by which the *cotf^J^%V<am Vi "X down the hillside t<yf|£,ijij£ D&'Jaf"- ' <Sf side of the road. JR'