ONE SHIFT PER DAY
COAL COMPANY REDUCES HANDS. 171 MINERS TO BE GIVEN NOTICE. Greymouth, August 9. The Blackball Coal Company directors this afternoon gave an intimation to the. Miners’ Union that 171 of the employees at the mine—namely, the single men—would be dispensed with after the expiry of a fortnight’s notice, as from to-morrow. Thereafter, the company intends to limit operations at the mine to one shift per day. Tho reason is stated to be slackness of trade, whereby overhead charges prevent the mine paying. Only recently a considerable number of miners were dispensed with by the Roa Company, whose property has since been let, contrary to the wishes of the unionist miners, to a tribute party far fewer in number than the original complement. These developments mean a serious accentuation of tho unemployment ’difficulty in the district. The Blackball Miners’ Union on Sunday meets to consider the situation, but so far np proposals are forward to cope with it, and there is no modification of the company's decision. .
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 203, 10 August 1928, Page 7
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