Blackball and Roa

Maoriland Worker, Volume 13, Issue 31, 1 August 1923, Page 10

Blackball and Roa

[ -No. 9 section of the Blackball mine recommenced. iKork during the past week, hut not many men were required to fiH the vacancies. •Despite the loss-; of the recent [dispute by. the Roa miners .on the point ; lately submitted to. Magistrate Poynton, several other matters, including ,' facilities for getting household coal for the employees,. were settled with satisfaction to the union. ... At the Roa Union meeting following Mr. Poynton's decision, caustic comments on Arbitration Courts and Disputes Com-mittees electrified the atmosphere. It was declared that tribunals on bosses have two representatives to ; the ; workers' one could never be expected to.do justice to the toilers..