TWO MINES IDLE
DISPUTE STILL NOT SETTLED The two Runanga State mines, at Rewanui and Nine Mile, tfere idle yesterday. Rewanui miners returned home when one of their number, Mr W. Robertson, dropped dead just before entering the mine-mouth, while the Strongman mine did not work on account of a development in the dispute that idled the mine on Tuesday.
The afternoon shift and “dog-watch” men worked in the Strongman mine on Tuesday evening, when it was thought that the dispute had been satisfactorily settled. Trouble again developed yesterday, however, when the deputies stopped the lamp of the man concerned in the original trouble. This was in an attempt to bring about a conference of the miners’ union and the management on the incident leading to the dispute. The union refused to enter into a discussion, and declared that if the worker’s lamp was stopped the mine would be idled. It is not known whether work will be resumed this morning.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25440, 11 March 1948, Page 8
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