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Grey River Argus, 2 May 1931, Page 5

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I -r 1 METAL MARKET. LONDON, April 29. Copper is quoted: Standard £4l 1-32 I and £4l 27-32 per ton; electrolytic £44 i and £45; wire bars £45; lead £ll 5-8 i and £115; spelter £lO4 and £lO 7-8; ' tin £lO4 9-16 and £lO5 15-16; silver 13 3-16 pence per ounce and 14J pence; gold 84/9}, p —————=z==z==z=r=L=i========r=: 11 O from the chair and agreed to unanimously:— . , r (I) That we Blackball minors publi'cly express our determination to continue a our present struggle to a. successful finish.” io . (2) That this May Day demoustra- I ® tion of workers calls upon the National Industrial Council to formulate and pu r . into effect a national policy for the [purpose, of resisting xyages reductions r ■ by concerted industrial action on the n day that the Arbitration Court inter- e . feres with wages or working conditions. << The following resolution ’was moved , f and carried unanimously by the women , v present, against the proposed introduc-1 tion of doss houses for working class • girls in this country: * 4 That this meet-1 ing of working class women of Black- | ball enter, an emphatic protest against the proposed institution of Doss Houses | for unemployed working class g’rls in i this country, and demands work for i them at the Trades Union rate of wages 1 ( or adequate sustenance. ” ' !i: The following resolution moed by Mr J. Doyle, of the Timber Workers 3 Union, was unanimously carried.-— “That this meeting protesta against the police * enterng the homes of well-known work-1 t ing class leaders, and also against their y ! action towards those who have taken i, part in unemployed demonstrations, and p that we demand tjie immediate release s , of those leaders now in gaol.” ! j i The demonstration wais brought to a ; . close by the entire company singing J : ‘‘The Red Flag. 33 Splendid weather ■ i prevailed. This meeting should go far t to cement that feeling of comradeship n i which exists in the various workers’ t | camps on the XVest -Coast. — — J