SHAG POINT COAL MINE
CLOSES DOWN. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) ■ -' DUNEDIN, May'll. Shag Point' coal mine lias- been closed down, throwing some. 80 men out of employment. In November, as the mine was not paying, the manager told the men that no dividends had been paid for several years, and the directors were disinclined to carry on after the award expired in March, unless working rates were reduced u per cent. The workers declined, and the management offered alternatively to hand over the mine to the men to be worked under the supervision of the Company’s manager on partnership lines. This also was refused.
Later, at the request of the Union, the Conciliation Commissioner held a conference without result.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1929, Page 2
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