MINERS’ DISPUTE
STATE COLLIERIES IDLE. rSB PRESS ASSOCIATION. GREYMOUTH, July ft The stoppage of work at the State Collieries is due to a difference between the men in the Morgan seam and the management over knocking off time. The management wishes to enforce a rule that work shall continue till 3.40 p.m., thus allowing 20 minutes for walking abont half a mile to the pit mouth. The miners claim that, the custom established under the national agreement, of allowing half an hour, should not be discontinued. When the miners turned up to-day ’ to work they were told there would be no work in any seam till the nnion gave a. written guarantee that work in the Morgan seam would continue till 3.40 p.m. The men returned to their homes, and a deadlock remains.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11253, 4 July 1922, Page 4
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133MINERS’ DISPUTE New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11253, 4 July 1922, Page 4
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