STOCKTON MINE DISPUTE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 November 1930, Page 5

STOCKTON MINE DISPUTE

ARBITRATOR’S FINDINGS. <liv Telegrapli—Press Association,; WESTPORT, Nov. 2!). Following the decision of Mr. C. IX Betts, independent chairman, in the Stockton dispute: 1 ‘My finding is that the management seeks to improve the output by putting on extra or extended shifts* on wet places, the object being to improve the output to so enable coal to be produced for locomotives earlier on the day shift; also to employ truckers the full eight hours. In this respect in the circumstances, I think it is justified. This company has been very unfortunate in that it had a long career of ill luck. Therefore I would recommend the men concerned and the mangement to co-oper-ate to the very fullest extent, for their mutual benefit and the successful working of the min. “I might also point out that the Buller Progress League has done its level best in trying to bring in the use of New Zealand coal only; also in inducing the bunkering trade with some measures of success. The railways are now using 100 per cent. New Zealand coal, and if there is not some measure of continuity of supplies this trade is likely to go elsewhere to the detriment of the mining community. “On the evidence produced I therefore recommend that the miners should give effect to the proposals of the man agement.”