WEST COAST DISTRICT.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 422, 9 April 1919, Page 3

WEST COAST DISTRICT.

." "" "~ " ; tt THE MILLERTON STRIKE -1 I In connection with the trouble at 01 Miilerton, Mr. W. Davidson, president, m Miners' Union, is reported to have given tl the- following iniormation to a press re- as porter:— ai Tne demands of the miners of Millerton were greatly miaunU-rstood. The tacts °* are: That the miners bare usually made to personal arrangements with th© man- d f agers to the of the miners S l in general. Heretofore the custom pre- th vailing at the Miilerton mine in con- V£ nection with trucking has been very unsatisfactory in bo far as the men Wi were required to come out from two to W four hours a day. The miners desired that all arrangements with regard to working the mine that need readjust- . a ment should be submitted to the management through their representatives. The management insist that they *houlu be empowered to make arrange- A] inents in regard to payments, etc., in connection with matiers not provided po for in the agreement at present in w< operation between th© company and th the union. The union maintains that 19: all arrangements should be made, ndt aw by individual membars of the union <vi out directly .nrough the representatives th ■t liie uui.u. Every m-ae rat Muler.on as! was prepared to truck providing he is fl -' kept at that particular employment 1? for the whole of tho shift. They do an not wish to dictate to the employers he as to the amount of work they ahould Tl do. The miners' demands simply sid amount to the following, viz., agreemeats to be made betwean the union a ■ and the company, and not by individual members, a practice which has prevailed, and has been entirely unsatisfac- ' tory. The miners, if required to leave 1 the face, are prepared to do so for the bei period of the shift. The action of the tht miner a relieves the pnessure under of which the company is smarting un through tho shortage of truckers, pic Every miner, placing himself at their wo service, is prepared to do a ! full bhii'tTs res trucking, j em