COAL MINERS.
POSITION ON WEST COAST. It is reported that, the State .Mines Department is at present engaged in drawing up fresh proposals to be submitted to the Stats .Miners Union for the working of the State collieries on a co-operative basis. The .Minister is hopeful that the fresh conditions to be submitted will haw? the.effect of removing .some of the outstanding objections. There scents to he no doubt that when the new national organisation of miners is consummated, oue of its first acts will be an open declaration Unit affiliation with the Aliianeo of Labour is at an end. The miners' council is. paying relief to the Stockton men who are idle owing to the mine being closed on account of thl- shortage of orders. Representations ha\\> been made to the Ministers by the Hon. !\V. H. Mc-j Irit.vre, M.L.S., who urged the renewal of the Govennent order of GOO tons a week.
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Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 135, 26 March 1924, Page 6
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