MINE IN JEOPARDY
THE HIKUEANGI STRIKE COMPANY'S ATTITUDE ' SERIOUS POSITION (By Teleuraph.—Press Assocratlon.) WHANGAEEI, This Day. Crucial conditions continue in connection with the strike which commenced last Wednesday at Wilson's (N.Z.) Portland Cement Company's mine at Hikurangi. Two hundred men attended a meeting of the . Miners' Union branch yesterday, when a decision was reached on a practically unanimous vote to hand the dispute over to the National United Mine Workers' Union. Representations have been telegraphed, and it is expected that a definite reply will be received early this week. "The men are not worrying whether the mine is closed or not. The owners have been holding a bogy over our heads all the time, using it as a weapon to bring the men into submission," declared Mr. Latham, secretary of the union. In the meantime the mine is manned by a skeleton staff. Five pumps have been brought to the surface, and are being dismantled. The management indicates that unless the men resume work to-morrow the last "eight" pump (big eight-inch), which cost £1500, will be withdrawn. This would mean xrretrhvable swamping of the workings. There is much anxiety concerning the safety of the men in the adjoining mine of the Hikurangi Coal Company, as the workings there are bound to flood if Wilson's; mine is left unattended.
The total number of men employed at Wilson's Hikurangi mine is 360. Other small mines in tho vicinity employ sixty men.
The Wilson's mine workers declare that the next move must come from the company."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 47, 24 August 1931, Page 8
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253MINE IN JEOPARDY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 47, 24 August 1931, Page 8
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