WEST COAST MINERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19020, 16 November 1923, Page 4

WEST COAST MINERS.

OWNERS’ PROPOSAL. EFFORT TO REACH SETTLEMENT FAILS. (Peb United Peess Association.* WELTMNGTON, November 15. Within the past few days the coal mine owners interested in the mines on the West Coast have made a further effort to settle the trouble there. , Their proposal, which was conveyed by telegram, is on similar lines to the former one, but the effort to effect a settlement resulted unsuccessfully. The Miners’ Federation has replied that, the offer is “much less liberal” than that submitted to the Miners’ representatives recently, but the want of liberality is denied by the mineowners. In the meantime the deadlock prevails. MEN REMAIN OBDURATE. (Peb United Press Association.) WESTPORT, November 15. The West Coast District Council of the Coal Miners’ Federation met at Westport to-day, and after reviewing the position, the members expressed themselves as well satisfied with the state of affairs as exist* ine at present. They maintain that the “locked-out’* miners are more determined than ever to secure some improvement in the existing conditions, and express the hope that tlio mineowners will soon condescend to negotiate along the lines of the last proposals submitted by the miners’ delegates at the recent Reefton conference.. They also reviewed the question of the coal output in the Duller and Grey districts.