HUNTLY MINES DISPUTE
WORK UNLIKELY TODAY “ SITUATION COMPLETELY UNCHANGED” “The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, August 22. It is apparent that the MacDonald, Glen Afton, and Pukemiro coal mines will again be idle to-morrow. However, negotiations were begun to-day under Mr A. Prenderville (president of the United Mine Workers National Council) and will continue to-morrow with a conference between the MacDonald mine management and the miners’ representatives. developments occurred at the meeting of men from the three mines on strike held in Huntly on Saturday morning. There was far from a full attendance of the 700 men on strike. Addresses urging the miners to return to work and to allow constitutional methods Of settling their claims to prevail were made by Mr T. Hall and Mr R. J. Dunn, members of the United Mine Workers’ National Council, but as the meeting was called solely to receive reports, no vote on the strike issue was taken. The situation was described after the meeting as being “completely unchanged.” Mr Prenderville, who was a member of the Coal Mines Council as well as the miners’ national president, came up from the South Island in response to a request from the MacDonald miners He had a four-hour conference this afternoon with the executive of the Northern Miners’ Union, and the committee of the men on strike. The only outcome of the meeting announced was that Mr Prenderville had, requested the MacDonald management to meet members of the United Mine Workers’ National Council and representatives of the miners on strike tomorrow morning, and that the management had agreed. No chance was seen of work resuming to-morrow at the three mines involved. The strike began in the middle of the week before last. It concerns the rate of pay for special work performed by two miners in the MacDonald mine and has been marked by a refusal of the strikers so far to submit their cause to arbitration. It has also been notable for the lack of support given to the strikers by the union as a whole
The Rotowaro, Alison, Renown, Wilton State, and local open cast mines have continued to work without interruption. The coal production loss so far is 10,400 tons.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25580, 23 August 1948, Page 6
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