MINERS STILL OUT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 14, 17 July 1923, Page 8

MINERS STILL OUT

THE PAPAROA TROUBLE.

The trouble.at the Paparoa mine is.not yet settled, for in spite of the fact that the representatives of both the employing company and 120 or so miners out ' on«'strike agreed that the-decision of ; Mr.*J. \V. Poyhton, S.M., chairman of the Disputes Committee set up.to hear evidence and argument in Wellington, should be accepted as final, that decisionV given against the men, has.not been honoured up to to-day, though there are indications that .work- may be resumed to:morrow morning. . ; The trouble, as stated,^ previously, arose mainly out of' a dispute ■ in regard to miners doing their own trucking in " isolated places" in the .mine in place'of that' work:; being.,.left for. ; .the .regulax-. tnickera,^ and: the consequent loss of ao--tual. hewing time, but, it is said, tho practice 'complained .of. has .been the custom in the mine for some years past. An unexpected hitch-also.occurred in theVpreliminary, negotiations: respecting the setting up of. the Disputes Committee in;;terms of the . Act, ■ for,-.though tho miners in the first place : agreed to a certain chairman, as is required..of botb\ sides by the Act, they refused 'at the eleventh-hour, to meet, before the committee so ' constituted,' and accordingly .theY- hearing, .was further delayed till it was' asceftainedi whether.-' Mr. P.oynton, to : whom both sides finally agreed, was able" to cpme : to .Wellington.; . -." „'.'" " The Paparoa. miners, .by the way, are not: )now affiliated with the New. Zea-, land Federation, ■■ Having withdrawn from' . that body some time ago.. -,' " p.