The Blackball Dispute.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 9794, 20 March 1908, Page 3

The Blackball Dispute.

(Peb Pbess Association.). .■ - Greymouth, March 19..There are no iresh developments., at Bilkball. The miners held a meeting but nothing was done ot £S£rta..«, and no resolutions were P U XI,e manager states that he has had no ,„municatioh with the I mou during: the l .'lk and the mines, are at a standst.U.. He is" prepared, whenever the miners wish, , °reel to the terms he made last wee*, "ireein.'to twenty, minutes' -crib" time. ag The fSrev Whatf Laborers L-moa have 'Tssed "regret at the. strike and dis•nnroval of the men s action. aP ?lr MKellar. of Christchureh, is at pre. 6f ,,t at Blackball, making enquiries into from Greymouth have . • ,1 to reason with the miners, but have failed, the last being a well-known clergyinaD - Dunedin, March 19. The Otasfo Trades and Labor Council ~- evenin" passed the following rcsolu•on" n regard to the Blackball strike :- -Tv \ view of the fact that this Coun•i Vlieves in the principle of concjlia.- , on and arbitration in >».'»' . dis P^f. s ' t '{ a, not see its way to advise the ami ate Sons to grant assistance to the Blackball minerS " Wellington, March 19. ■\r. p 7T Hickev, one of the dismissed miners, will' arrive "in Wellington on Satur fT Arrangements are being made to l,oid public meetings in the evening, at ! h"h he will be asked to speak on the liters in dispute between the Miners r on and the Blackball Coal Company. The New Zealand Times has it- trom a reliable authority that certain overtures ir "now under consideration by the In.™, ivhic'i will permit of a compromise being arrived at in the course of the next few d T'is understood that the Blackball Co. his offered to defrav half the line ot ±wt> imposed on the Union, and an early settle. nl0 „t of the dispute is probable