DISMISSAL OF MINERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 6

DISMISSAL OF MINERS

RESULT OF A MEETING. i (BI TBLBORAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WAIHI, This Day. A meeting of the Miners' Union held last night in connection with the recent dismissals of men from the mines resolved : — "That the union executive interview the heads of the local companies as to these dismissals, and tho result be posted at the union office." A special meeting of the Ohinemuri Mines and Batteries Union was convened for last evening, for the purpose of " enquiring into the dismissal of men from the employ of mining companies." It was stated that tho services of some twenty-five or thirty men had been dispensed with (including the Waihi and Grand Junction mines) during the past few days. It is anticipated that the Waihi section of the East Coast railway will absorb about ninety men, including contract and day wages hands. This will absorb most of the surplus labour resultant upon the local dismissals and the stoppage of operations in the Crown mine at Karangahake. One hundred men wero to ' bo put off from the Crown mine, Karangahake, on Wednesday, but about half of these will be taken on at tho Talisman.