EMANCIPATED WESTPORT.
RED YOKE BROKEN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Westport, December 22. A conference of mining delegates sat at Westport to-day, and again this evening, to consider the strike, so far as tho miners are concerned, but it is understood that no decision has been a .-rived at, and that the eonfcrence resumes tomorrow. Meantime it is reported that a movement is on foot at tho .mines with a view to tho early resumption of work.
Tho inward cargo trade was resumed in earnest to-day with the arrival of tho Kaitoa and Kennedy from Nelson. The Hinemoa and Tutanckai both took outward cargoes of coal for tho Railway Department on Friday and Saturday.
It is anticipated that the miners will dccide to resume work under tho Arbitration Act immediately after tie New Year holidays, tho earliest at which they could probably lie opened. Despite the depression consequent on tho lengthy period of idleness, tho town wears a smiling appearance at the rout of the Red Federation, whoso yoke the workmen feel they have borne too long,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1939, 23 December 1913, Page 6
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175EMANCIPATED WESTPORT. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1939, 23 December 1913, Page 6
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