WAIHI MINERS
QUESTION OF AN AGREEMENT. NOT A BURNING QUESTION.
[BY TfcLBGBAPH— KRESS ASSOCIATION.]
AUCKLAND, This Day. Mr. Rhodes, who presided at the New Zealand Gold Mineowners' Association, made a statement to a Press representative, in which he said that during a recent visit to Waihi he gathered that there exists an impression that the mining companies will not start work in the mines till after an agreement has been made with a union registered under the Arbitration Act. Though it ,is quite true no agreement will be made with any union or federation not registered under the Arbitration Act, said Mr. Rhodes, the mineowners purposely left it open for miners to start work without any agreement whatever if they thought fit. When sufficient miners offer to work without any agreement the probability is their desire will be favourably considered. "There is no special virtue in an agreement which men will not abide by ; hence we do not at present regard necessity for agreement as a very burning question," said Mr. Rhodes.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 53, 30 August 1912, Page 8
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172WAIHI MINERS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 53, 30 August 1912, Page 8
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