REEFTON MINERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 24 June 1912, Page 7

REEFTON MINERS.

AN APPEAL FOR FUNDS.

<JREY VALLEY MINERS ASSIST

MX TELEeEAPH—PSESS ASSOCIiTiOH

WELLINGWTON, June 24. Last week the Seamen's Union de<clined to give financial assistance to the Federation of Labor in the cause of the men idle at "Waihi and Reefton. The secretary of the Union, Mr "W. R Young, has now received an appea? from Mr Fagan, secretary of the Reelton Miners' Union, asking for direct assistance for the men there . He adds: *'Our fight should not be bracketed -with Waihi. We are locked out for not •complying with conditions foreign to •pnr agreement. Human life is at stake '■with us, also the very existence of the Union depends upon the result."

Mr Young, replying, promises to "bring the matter before his union, and expresses regret at the unwarranted ac'|tf>n of the Federation of Labor in Tbrwdketing Reefton with Waihi to savt its own face.

GREYMOUTH, June 24. The Grey "Valley miners refused to Tiaake a 10 per cent, levy for the striking miners, Trnt took up a voluntary subscription for tTie Reefton workers, iihe money to be handed direct to the women and. children..

A number of members of the State Miners' Union refused to pay the levy struck by the Federation a few weeks -a,pro. It is understood that Mr Serrmlp tried to effect a compromise, with little •success.