STATE COLLIERIES
DISPUTE OVER KNOCKING-OFF V..,„• ;.;„.flM^-jv;,;.,;;;,. :; £V vi (SI TE.BOfIAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION,) .GREYMOUTH, 3rd July. ■There has been a stoppage of work at the State collieries, due to a difference between 'the. men in the Morgan ■ seam and the management over.' knock-ing-olf time. .The management wishes to enforce the rule that .work should continue till 3.40 p.m., allowing twenty miuutes for walking about half a mile to the,pit mouth. The miners claim that .the custom, established under the national -agreement of allowing half fan , hour should not be_ discontinued. When the miners turned up to-day to work they were told that there would be no work in any,seam till the union gave a written guarantee that-work in the Morgan seam would continue" till 3.40. The men returned to their homes; and the deadlock remains. ■'..'■
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 3, 4 July 1922, Page 2
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134STATE COLLIERIES Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 3, 4 July 1922, Page 2
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