WAIHI MINERS' DEMANDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14701, 19 June 1911, Page 8

WAIHI MINERS' DEMANDS

CONFERENCE CONTINUES.

FURTHER DISCUSSION TO-DAY.

[BY TELEGRAM. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WAirrr, Saturday. Tin: conference between tho mineowners' representatives and tlio delegates representing tho Now Zealand Labour Federation and Waihi Miners and Workers' Union, relative to the demands made by tho lastnamed body for increased wages, etc., was resumed this morning, and after tho greater part of tho day had been spent in discussing the various clauses of the reference a further adjournment until Monday was decided upon. Meanwhile both parties to tho dispute decline to communicate information to tho press.

The mincowners' representatives intimate that, should it bo deemed advisable to give publicity to tho matters at issue before finality is achieved one way or the other, a, written statement will bo furnished. It is evidently anticipated by the union representatives that the companies' reply to tho demands will bo known on Monday, as a special general meeting of members of tho union has boon convened for Monday night at tho Academy Theatre to consider the report of the conference between the employers' representatives and tho federation and union delegates. The meeting will bo confined to financial members of tho union, and admission will be by ticket. It will not be open to the press.

WORKING ON CONTRACT. THE CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Watht, Saturday. Some of the. contractors in and about the Waihi mine, who have employed wages men in their jobs and are opposed to the decision of the Waihi Miners arid Workers' Union that all work in contracts shall bo conducted under tho co-operative system as from Monday next, have given expression to their disapproval by notifying certain of tho wages men that their services will bo dispensed with. Where this course has been followed tho contractors are reducing the parties as far as possible without interfering with tho conduct of the jobs in terms of the company's specifications and requirements. In other cases the contractors, in sympathy with tho union's resolution, are taking their wages men in tho jobs on the co-operative principle, which means an equal division of the earnings of tho members of the parties. Certain of the contractors who have decided to reduce hands are members of the union.