POSITION AT STATE MINES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 6

POSITION AT STATE MINES.

MINERS' PROTEST. [BY TKLEGRAPE — MIESS ASSOCIATION.] CREYMOUTH, This Day. A mass meeting of residents at the State collieries at Ruuangu and Dunolly passed thofollowing resolutions, proposed by the Miners' Unions: — "(1) That this meeting of Coal Creok State Miners' Union enters a most emphatic protpst against the slack timo worked by tho State mine in the last five mouths, when wo consider that tho mine is the people's concern, and tho Government is acting a.s agent of ihe whole people. We consider taut an enquiry into matters relating to the working of the eamo should be made forthwith, with' a view of having tho people's mines worked in the interests of the whole people. (2) That this meeting of the Stato Miners' Union enters its most emphatic protest against the accommodation conditions of workers employed at the Point Elizabeth No. 2 branch mine, aud call upon the Government to at once erect suitable huts, etc., for- tho workmen employed there." A number of members spoke in support oi tho resolutions, and pointed out that there were at present one hundred men working at tho top mine, employed at development work, without suitable accommodation.