EVIDENCE OF BETTER SPIRIT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 24 May 1917, Page 5

EVIDENCE OF BETTER SPIRIT

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.

GREYMOUTH, May 23. The "go slow" policy of the coal miners has given place to their best efforts, with the result that records have been established for the number of men now employed, so much so that last week, owing to want of shipping, enforced idleness resulted in some mines. _^ .The miners 7} delegates returned from the Wellington conference and met their unions at Blackball, Paparoa and the State mines. After deliberation it was resolved to accept separate agreements between each mine-owner and its union until after the war. This means that separate unions will act outside the Federation. At the same time delegates are reported to have informed their unions that the Federation executive trust the individual unions will arrange terms without any further strikes. It is plain from this that the bulk of the miners have taken definite steps to show their loyalty, and are determined that the country shall not be held up for want of coal.