CONFERENCE ON TUESDAY

Evening Star, Issue 21138, 25 June 1932, Page 12

CONFERENCE ON TUESDAY

THE MINE STRIKE OWNERS MAKE CONCESSION [Special to the ‘ Star.’] AUCKLAND, Juno 25. It was announced at Huntly last ei eniug by Mr W. Davison, secretary < .lie Northern Miners’ District Council a(i the miners had secured the const ofl the employers to an unconditiona. inference, to be held in Auckland on' Tuesday. A telegram received by Me Davison at 4 p.m. from Mr A. M'Lagan, secretary of the Federation of Miners’! Unions, statedl ‘ Conference withou $ resumption of workotherwise , unconditional.” Mr Davison said that meant that the owners were not insisting on the men resuming work before the conference, and no stipulation was being made that the men should agree to the clause of the owners’ proposals regarding the unrestricted right to engage! and dismiss men before the owners would agree to a conference. No explanation could bo given in Huntly' of the denial by Mr T. OBishop, secretary of the. New Zealand Coal Mine Owners’ Association, that the owners had agreed to an unconditional conference. The officials of tha union say that they are at a loss to interpret the denial. M'Lagan’s latest telegram, at any rate, is regarded as final at Huntly. CONFIRMATION FROM OWNERS [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 25. The following statement was issued to-day by Mr Bishop, secretary of the New Zealand Coal Mine Owners’ Federation:—“With the object of terminating the deadlock which has occurred in the north, and in the hope of finding a mutually satisfactory way out, a conference has now been arranged to be held in Auckland on Tuesday next,; when the whole of the matters, in dispute will be discussed. The condition attached to the conference is that the Hikurangi Union will accept and abide by any decision of the conference, and this condition has been accepted.”