MINES RESUME

Evening Star, Issue 18532, 15 January 1924, Page 8

MINES RESUME

THE TERMS OF SETTLEMENT. All the West Coast mines were to resume yesterday, j Details of the voting on the question of ratification were as follow

There are about .1,200 members of the affected unions, so that more than half of the miners failed to record a vote. Commenting on the situation, the ‘Grey Diver Argus’ states! “Summing up the position, although the miners have had to compromise on some points, they have on tlie wholo won some substantial advantages from the straggle they have, with the. aid of organised labor elsewhere, sustained successfully for four months past. To those of the owners who were instrumental in promoting the final conferences it is due to say that their judgment has been vindicated ,as the miners have shown a very reasonable attitude when there was a genuine attempt to deal justice out to them. It is certain the miners’ fight will prove advantageous for all other ranks of labor in the dominion, as it will tend to check the employers’ offensive against wages, which would otherwise ha.vo been soon extended to the seamen and other workers of the dominion.”

Denn.Lst.on ... For. ... 126 •Against. 3 MUJei'ton .„ ... ... 218 4 Xgakawau ... ... ... 38 29 Blackball .„ ... 88 45 Boa ... — ... 0 16 Totals ... 470 97