WORK RESUMED
AT EXTENDED MINE. (IT TBIEOHAPH— PftESS ASSOCIATION,) HAMILTON, This Day. A large meeting of the miners was held at Huntly last night and discussed the recommendation of the deputation appointed to approach the employers to resume work to-day, pending settlement of the demands for an all-round increase. The matter was argued at great length, the chairman (Mr. S. Dixon), who is president of the union, pointing out that the directors promised that when a settlement was reached they would make nny increase retrospective to the time of resumption. About three liUhdred men were in the building, and when the motion for resumption was put about seventy voted for and twenty against. The remainder abstained from voting.." When the whistle blew this morning about two hundred of the two hundred and thirty men employed at the Ex* tended Mine resumed. Ralph's Mine will not be open for some time, owing to repairs below and the taking of necessary safeguards against further explosions which aro not yet completed,.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 75, 25 September 1914, Page 7
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168WORK RESUMED Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 75, 25 September 1914, Page 7
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