KAITANGATA TRUCKERS' STRIKE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14441, 6 February 1909, Page 15

KAITANGATA TRUCKERS' STRIKE.

iKISITKATIOX cnniT AIUI'DICATI'.S. FINK OF £50 INFI.ICTKD. On Wednesday last the application iiv ill, l l.'ibour Department for the enforcement of tV coal miners' award again.-.! some '10 iruol.Ti--, who went on slrik ' al Kailai: ; ':iia 11 f-w months ago (ante 011 for hearing before ill" Arbitration Court. Kepro.-cintt-tivos ot the truckers alul of ibo Coal Miners' rftiou who •.•.ere present acknowledged the breach, and Mr Hollow-, rcpivEfiiioij; 1 lie l.abom- 11. i,:u 1111. nl, slated ;i lumber of facts I hat wemjo mitigate ihni,. iili'ence. The court then luljoun.ed lite Wis ■.

Yesterday, when il was called on. Mr Ik:!!iu\s fjiMrcssi'il tho court poitil* In;: out llial. the men realised ihey had made a mistake in striking, and had re•iirned to wink without having.given their employes much trouble

Tlii' court, having coihiileivil iho in;ili<>r, llip Ibijior .-aid: In tln* cases against Marsh ami others we have decided to trout ■these cases nil us (me c;iso, mid impose one fine against. all of t'.o respondents cordinijly. In view oi' all the t-ircum-etancc* w<> will line tJicm £30, ami ordi'f them to pay thai, miiii to tlio Inspector of Awards as a iicnally for Iho olfciwe of taking mri in a strike.

'Flirty-seven truckers. whoso unmcs a>o tis lollows, wore lined:—ll. Marsh, Wat lUaokio. Johnson, jtin., John Brown, F. Victors, W. \V;wldcli. Thomas Davis, ,1. Liinj,', J. Archibald, Thomas .M'Knui'h.in, \Y. (iadsby, \Y Anderson, Herbert Morris, 11. Waters. John llead, K. Honnet-t, i\ T* l ! for, (1. M'Yie, Jl. Oswald, .lames Manor. juii., Thomas Thompson, \Y. .Sharp, John Arehihald. A. I'cid, Israel Thompson, I'"- liinin, .Joseph Diiiin, A. Hinder, F. I'.veium, (ieorjo .larvio, J. IJilmour, (\ tarson, Waltflr M'Millan. .1. Daniels-, _\l. il'l'.wen, A. lllitij^woifh, Thomas Shiirp. S]nv\kinLT afterwards to a reporter. a Ki'Wli'iiiiin interested In coal mininj; inaltors i'\in-ci<c<l tho opinion (hat the court's decision would not |, ( . W ell received by the iMieKevs. 1J(. pointed out. that originally ;il".".t 40 tt tickers wonl on .strike, ami ,i*|- - v ' ,ni 'aino liable t» „ fine. .Since the 1,1 place, however, probably half that number had cleared out, so that those reim-ini,,.; were forced to sltouider o; tho tine. £-1) wonld .Ml bo jat .ii uhuly hard ui, 10 truckers, though heavy cnoMirh; |~„ if 2-j , V erc expected t-o pa; it there \ V „hM <wtainlv 1« gr»inl>lhi«. the i-nickers. when tliev went bad; to work, received tho a-sKurai.ee 'ronr their employers that they w<ml<l 1* lenionllv t! " : ' | t *«•!>. '!•<:>' had been |0,,k H i|; forward to !}>e hoarinij of their application by flic (Mirt. wiili few uiiti«jiviugs.