SOUTHLAND MINES
AGREEMENT SECURED.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
INVERCARGILL, March 12.
After a strike extending over six months, the coalminers on the Ohai field will resume work to-morrow morning.
A meeting of the Union was held to-day to consider the report of the recent conference in Christchurch. A secret ballot was held. It resulted in 144 voting against a resumption of work and 113 for.
As a three-fifth majority is required to continue the strike, the miners Will now resume work. Th© conditions of work will be substantially those set out by the owners prior to the strike, with various concessions, including the right to contract through the Union representatives, and slight increases in wages, amounting to three farthings per ton at Mossbank and twopence per ton in the solid at Linton and Wairakei. The Companies have agreed to carry 20 per cent more hands than normal requirements to run the pits. In other words, the work will he rationed but at Mossbank, it is stated, all hands can be absorbed. The “hire and fire” clause, which has been the chief bone of contention, will remain in the agreement, the owners having won their point. The agreement will expire on January 31 next.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1933, Page 5
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