KAITAMATA TO WORK
MINERS REJECT STRIKE BALLOT By a ballot held yesterday the Kaitangata coal miners decided against the proposal to strike hi sympathy with the other miners throughout New Zealand. The voting began- at 7 o’clock in the morning, and was continued through the day. By evening 205 votes had been cast, and of these 116 were against the proposal to strike and 89 in favour of it. The majority, therefore, against the strike being extended to Kaitangata was 27. The chairman of directors of the Kaitangata Coal Company Ltd. (Mr Peter M‘Skimming, M.P.) states the men are working under an agreement which has approximately a year to run, and there has never been any suggestion of trouble between the men and the owners, the proposal to strike being made purely in sympathy with the miners already out. Heavy orders for coal are coming in, and the mine is working in full swing, and the output is entirely satisfactory.
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Evening Star, Issue 21129, 15 June 1932, Page 6
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160KAITAMATA TO WORK Evening Star, Issue 21129, 15 June 1932, Page 6
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