HIKURANGI STRIKE.
Per Press Association. WHANGAREI, Aug. 24. Crucial conditions continue in connection with the strike which commenced last Wednesday at Wilson’s (N.Z.) Portland Cement Company’s mine at Hikurangi. Two hundred men attended a meeting of the branch of the Miners’ Union yesterday, when a decision was reached on a practically unanimous vote to hand the dispute over to the National United Mineworkers’ Union. The meeting’s representations have been telegraphed, and it is expected that a definite reply will be received early this week. “The owners have been holding a bogey over our heads all the time, using it as a weapon to bring the men into submission,” declared Mr Latham, secretary of the union. In the meantime the mine is manned by a skeleton staff.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 225, 24 August 1931, Page 8
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126HIKURANGI STRIKE. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 225, 24 August 1931, Page 8
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