MINERS SILL IDLE

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume XV, 25 July 1930, Page 2

MINERS SILL IDLE

Dispute over Transport Renown Collieries’ Position The Renown Collieries are .■ t II idle owing to (lie dispute over transput matters between the men and the contract rr, and at present there is no prospect of work being resumed. .Another meeting of employees was held yesterday and the men refused to accept the t ims < ffered by t''e contractor. It is understood that the last terms offered 1 1 them at the conference on Monday by the c a t actor was 8/ per week in the winter when tire mines work regularly, and f per week in the summer mouths, for a weekly tic-

ket. This is for conveying the L man ov< r a difficult road, a cf is - j t tnce of 101 nvles each way. The . Renown Coal Company subsi lises this service, but the amount of '/ subsidy is 1 irgely absoibed by special trips on idle days, Sunday ' nights an I oilier special trip--. Hie return fare in t e past has ' been 1/4 par return trip and the ' lispute is chiefly against the weekly ticket as wanted by the contract >r. The men feel that the Coal Company should bear a ceitain amount of t ie expense incurred in the transportation of them to the mine. The old terms allowed by the contract ir were 6 return trips fc r 8/, tlie ticket to be used at any lime, and the new turns ara based on a weekly ticket to expire at the end of each week.