GREEN ISLAND MINERS
GENERAL STRIKE PROBABLE. MEN DETERMINED. [by. telegraph— special to the post.] DUNEDIN, This Day. It is probable that the mining dispute at _ Christie's colliery will swell to a strike on the part ot all the miners employed in the Green Island district— 'about 100 workers. As far as can be ascertained, neither side in the original trouble intends to yield. The Green Island' branch of the Otago Coal Miners' Union held a meeting on Friday night, at which tho men decided : — "That we, the miners at Grefn Island, do hereby pledge ourselves to stand solidly by our comrades who are out at Christie's No. 2t mine, and that we are determined to take every step necessary to get the relief desired by our fellow-workers." The men hold to the opinion that what they ask is reasonable, and the owners are equally convinced that they have done everything within reason to ,meet the men.'s demands for better trucking roads. It is understood that if the dispute ie not settled soon, the New Zealand Federation of Labour will take charge of matferß. What at one time seemed a trivial dispute is threatening to become an upheaval of a useful indubtry.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 107, 6 May 1912, Page 7
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