LINTON MINE STILL IDLE
FOURTH CONSECUTIVE DAY .- i (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, Feb. 2. A claim by the truckers of the Linton mine at Ohai for an increase in wages was considered at a sitting of the Coal Mines Council at Nightcaps to-day. Representatives of the truckers and the company were heard, and the sitting will be concluded on Monday. The majority of the men employed at the mine, did not report for work this morning and it was impossible to work the mine with those who did put in an appearance. It was the fourth consecutive day on which the mine was idle. The miners ceased work on Tuesday as a urotest against the failure of the man-power authorities to obtain truckers for the mine. Only three truckers arrived in the district on Thursday night to work at the mine, and this number was not considered sufficient by those miners who did not report for work this morning. It was expected that four or five truckers would arrive under niau-power direction and the miners had agreed that they would begin work 1 if these were available.
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Evening Star, Issue 25400, 3 February 1945, Page 12
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185LINTON MINE STILL IDLE Evening Star, Issue 25400, 3 February 1945, Page 12
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