MINE STOPPAGE
AT GLEN AFTON. (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 18. Work at the Glen Afton Mine near Huntly, was stopped to-day, and between 600 and 700 men have been deprived oif work for two days. The stoppage was through the miners taking exception to two boys .teing ordered to' report to the manager for failing to work full time.
Tile men stated that the two boys were working on the surface. They became wet through on Wednesday when attending to the screens, and they went home before their allotted time. On returning to work the hoys were told to report to the manager. The men objected to the boys being reprimanded, and they decided not to work that day as a protest. The management thereupon declared that the mine should ho closed until Monday.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1931, Page 6
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137MINE STOPPAGE Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1931, Page 6
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