COAL MINE IDLE
Demand On Management Made By Men
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, April 28.
Men employed by Glen Afton Collieries at the Macdonald Coal Mine did no work today and have decided to remain idle till the demand they have made on the management is met. It is understood that the men did not go to the mine to start work but that the meeting was held in Huntly tc discuss a demand on the management for an increase of 3d. a ton for machine-cut places. This was to include holes bored free, or a 6(1. a ton increase if they were not bored free.
The present lowest rate under the agreement, which has about 12 months to run, is 2/9J a ton. At the meeting the decision reached was that the Macdonald mine would remain idle till the management agreed to the demand. Delegates from each of the Glen Afton Collieries mines were present at the meeting.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 181, 29 April 1941, Page 8
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159COAL MINE IDLE Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 181, 29 April 1941, Page 8
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