GOAL STRIKE ENDS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 8

GOAL STRIKE ENDS

MOST OF THE MEN AT WORK

■}■ CONDITIONS OF SETTLEMENT

GO-SLOW POLICY TO CEASE.

It was ' announced ..unofficially last night that the coal strike had been settled on the following, terms : —

It is to be made plain to the Military Service Boards that' every essential worker in the essential industries of coal and gold mining should have the appeals allowed.

Government will .not press for a penalty in the case of men who have been arrested on account of the "goslow" policy, including anyone conveying messages to one union by direction of another in connection with the present strike., Government will do their best to arrange for a conference between coal mine owners and the employees within a fortnight. Every man to go back, to work as before the strike. The delegates undertake to do their best to induce the men. to resume work on the 25th of April, and to abandon the "go-slow" policy. If any prosecutions take place the Government, will not press for penalties. Speaking to a Post reporter this afternoon the "Acting Plrim© Minister (Sir James Allen) stated that all the mines are working 1, with the exception of Paparoa, Pukemiro, and Waipa, which are to resume to-moTrow. He added that ho did not publish the conditions of settlement earlier because he thought it was only fair that the mine-owners should be apprised previously. He was conferring with them on the subject to-day.