THE BLACKBALL STRIKERS.
A DISPUTED STATEMENT. Mr S. Brown, employers' representative on the -Arbitration Court, speaking to a Christchurch Press representative regarding the alleged promise by Mr Loitch that he would make a statement in Court that tho dismissed men would not be victimised, stated that he and Mr McCulloug-h had arranged to get the employers and men respectively to agree to a twenty minutes' crib time and a "clean slate," and (here was nothing said at all about any statement, being made in Court. Mr Brown had no trouble in getting the employers to consent ro the. agreement, and when the Court salnext morning announced the fr.ct. The same day, the Court, having finished its business on the. West Coast, rose at 1 p.m.. and it was. not till 7 o'clock that evening that the 'miners came to a decision. How. therefore, could the men reasonably corftend that Mr Leitcli should have made a sateinent in Court when tho Court had finished its sitting? He thought, metaphorically, they had not a \eg to stain , , c." in their contention.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8538, 19 March 1908, Page 2
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179THE BLACKBALL STRIKERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8538, 19 March 1908, Page 2
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