MINERS' STRIKE.
Sir, —The miners have refused to accept the award of the Arbitration Court, and have, ceased work, for no other apparent reason than that the award is made by the Arbitration Court, and they will have none of it. Surely when a body of men refuse to accept the awards of a Court specially set up to - settle disputes, they should no longer be recognised as a union i Tho registration of any union' refusing to use the machinery and Courts established to settle disputes and make swards, and who strike rather than accept such awards, should, automatically be cancelled, leaving the employers to deal with those willing to work. But no serious attempt has yet been mads by the Government to deal with recalcitrant unions, and the miners are specially protected ard coddled, both by law and awards, agr.inst any competition from I outside the unions, or from those mem- | bers of the unions who desire tc work, ; and until there is some punishment for wilfully dislocating the machinery of commerce as the miners do, they will continue the selfish policy they have indulged in in the pasfc. J. Thorxes, 231, Manukau Road, Parnell.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17956, 5 December 1921, Page 3
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