UGLY SITUATION ON WEST COAST.
MINERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST CONTRACT WORKERS. TACTFUL POLICE SAVE SERIOUS TROUBLE WESTPORT, Last Night. A huge miners ’ demonstration took place at Ngakawau to-day. Representatives of the Stockton Miners’ Union, about twenty in all, visited the Charming Creek mine yesterday and requested the employees on contract to cease work. These men who have been out of work for some time refused to do so and this morning a party of 200 or so Stockton and Millerton miners took part in a demonstration and visited the mine. Half a dozen police followed the miners to watch the position and at the mine matters became so ugly that the police had to urge the contractors to cease work and meet all the parties at Ngakawau to discuss the position. While the conference was in progress • the demonstrators stormed the hotel to get at the contract employees. Considerable damage was done and but for the tactful way in which the police handled the delicate situation matters might have become very serious.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1931, Page 3
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