IDLE AGAIN
MEN AT STATE MINE ANOTHER GRIEVANCE NO PAY FOR TIME LOST I 0.0.) GREYMOUTIT, Thursday Idle on Monday because of the dismissal of a trucker, the Strongman State mine was idle again to-day on account of some of the men taking exception to the fact that pay had been stopped for time lost on the day of the last quarterly cavil, October 16. Only shiftmen and truckers were affected by the deduction, but their decision to return homo when they received their pay-dockets this morning, disclosing that they were not paid for time lost, prevented about 150 men from working. On cavil day it is an established practice for miners to leave early and for shiftmen and truckers to carry on the shift. For some time men other than miners have been leaving the Strongman mine early on cavil day, but no official notice has been taken of it. However, on the last cavil day the number was so great, between 20 and 30, that tlio management had to take action. It. is stated that at the Liverpool mine men other than miners have been in the habit of leaving the mine early on cavil day, and that over a period of voars they have not been paid for time so lost.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24104, 24 October 1941, Page 6
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