WEST COAST MINERS
NEW AGREEMENT MADE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHBISTCHURCH, 14th June.
The possibility of a strike in the coalmining industry on the West Coast was averted as tlie result of a successful conference held yesterday between .representatives of the Miiie Owners' Association and the United Mino Workers of New Zealand.
The conference, which was hold in the Chamber of Commerce, was not open to the Press, but at its conclusion Mr. T. 0. Bishop, secretary of the Coal Mine Owners' Association, said ' that there had been a complete settlement on all the points in dispute. As a result of the conference, he said, a new agreement was made practically along the lines of the former one, tho period of operation being two years.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 10
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124WEST COAST MINERS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 10
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