IMPENDING COAL-MINE TROUBLE.
A REASSURING STATEMENT. (Per United Press Association.) ... WESTPORT, -August 31. Hr Jonathan Dixou, district superiritendent to the Westpprt Coal Company, wis in West port yes.tevday. Seen, by a representative of the Westport News 'with regard to the report from'tho.North Island , of impending troublo in the coal-mining industry, Mr_ Dixon said. Ho know of nothing of the kind so far as this district was' conceriwd. The report had ■ apparently - - arisen frani the fact that the unions had i severed their, connection with the Arbitration Court-. This action, he understood, : ; was due to a belief on the part of'tho.. rncii that t-hoy could get better terras by, acting directly v.-it-h their, employers than'by placing their disputes'befor 0 the Arbi- \. tration Court. There was no trouble in - this district so far as he was aware. Satis- i' factory agreements were being made with the men employed by his company. , Ho had heard of no trouble or probablo trouble on the coast. There was nothing to justify the unrest so far as he was aware. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14927, 1 September 1910, Page 5
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