STRIKE ENDED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21064, 8 April 1943, Page 2

STRIKE ENDED

HIKURANGf MINERS * IVfEN’S p£MAN#S MET DOCTOR FOR DISTRICT (P.A.) WHANGAREI, April 8. Miners of the Hikurangi and Kamo collieries who have been on strike as a protest against the non-appointrnent of a doctor to Hikurangi in place of Dr. Armstrong, - who has removed to whangarei; eight miles distant, de-cided-'at- a meeting yesterday afternoon to resume work this morning. The miners’ council reported that it had received an assurance from the mines controller" that a doctor is being secured. In the meantime' the doctor of a nearby military" crimp Will make hit? services available if required. It was stated at the meeting that Dr. Armstrong, before leaving, had arranged to visit Hikurangi three bvenirigs each week. 'His surgery in Whangarei is less than half a' mile lirom Kamo,' where' the majority of miners are employed. The secretary of the Hikurangi miners said' at the meeting that the Ministers had deprecated the strike which, they declared, would be interpreted as the miners holding a pistol to the head of the Government. One speaker urged'the miners riot to fight their friends, saying that if the Conservatives were iri power the miners would have h.ad the police despatched against them for ceasing work. -

The decision to resume is to be reviewed in three weeks’- time.