Stockton Mine Idle This Week
(P.A.) WESTPORT. This Day. No work lias been done at the Stockton State Mines this week because of the protest of the union against the employment cn Monday morning of a man who was preferred by the management to others well above him on the waiting list. The man employed was‘out of work, but the union submits that preference should have been given to members who were on the waiting list. The manager (Mr T. McC-hie) says the policy of the management is not to take men from other mines in the district as would have happened if men on the waiting list above the man actually appointed had been given preference
Union miners were already working in Millerton Colliery, where labour was urgently needed to maintain output. Two mines, the Stockton underground and open-cast, have an average daily output of about 1000 tons. Messrs A. Prendeville, J. Dowgray and W. Carson, members of the Coal Mines Council, are due to meet the men at Stockton today.
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Northern Advocate, 26 September 1946, Page 4
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