MINERS WANT CUT RESTORED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 13 April 1934, Page 7

MINERS WANT CUT RESTORED

CONCILIATION PROCEEDINGS

PARTIAL AGREEMENT REACHED .By Telegraph-—Fress Association t WAIHI, April 13. Following a three days’ sitting the Conciliation Court, with Mr P. Hally (Commissioner) presiding, concluded the hearing last evening of applications iby the Waihi Miners’'Union and district branches of the Amalgamated Engineers and Eftigine Drivers Union for a new industrial agreement with the Waihi Goldmining Company and the Golden Dawn Goldmining Company for the restoration of a 10 per cent, cut imposed in June, 1931. The result was that the miners’ representatives accepted the Waihi Company’s offer of an increase of Is 3d per day in the form of a special bonus, the payment being payable, quarterly on a 44-hour week. hi the ease of the Golden Dawn Company. which, so far has not shown profits, the hearing was adjourned for a few flays after the owners’ representative, Air J. Farrell, had made it clear that the company was not. in a. position to pay the increased rate. Air J. Roberts, the miners’ advocate, suggested that it should be left to the workers employed by this company to decide whether they were prepared to go on under the current rate or, alternatively, face the possibility of the mine closing down. This aspect will (be discussed at a miners’ meeting on Sundnv.

The sub-unions concerned also accepted the Waihi Company’s terms.