MINING DISPUTE
SEEKING RELIEF FUNDS. (Special to “Star.”) CHRISTCHURCH, November 2. Now that Government mediation in the coal dispute has failed, the miners have settled down to prepare for a long struggle. Their chief need is funds and every" effort is being made to get these. Mr T. G. Daly, President of the Blackball Miners’ Union is in Christchurch at present. He addressed a meeting of employees at the Railway Goods Sheds, and a meeting of the Executive of the Amalgamated Society" of Railway Servants. Both promised Assistance. At boon today" he met the employees at the Addington Railway Workshops, who passed the following motion without dissent: That this meeting of railway iWorkshops employees expresses its disapproval of the conduct of West Coast Coal employers in locking out the miners and promising its financial support to women and children during the lockout.
It is believed that the .struggle, is likely to last till well after Christmas.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 November 1923, Page 2
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