WEST COAST MINES
REQUEST FOR CONFERENCE OWNERS SIGNIFY ACQUIESCENCE (Pek United Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, May 17. The Prime Minister (Mr G. W. Forbes) and the Minister of Mines (Mr O. E. Macmillan) have each telegraphed to Mr W. J. M‘Lean, chairman of the Grey Chamber of Commerce, stating that the coal owners are willing to meet the Miners’ Council in conference as early as possible, and that meanwhile the former working conditions will be continued. Probably the men will work tomorrow-. THE UNIONS NOTIFIED MINES TO RESUME WORK (Per United Press Association.') GREYMOUTH,„ May 17. The coal mines in the Grey and Inangahua districts will resume operations tomorrow consequent upon the receipt by the miners’ organisations of a telegram from the Coal Owners’ Federation stating that a conference is being arranged in. order to negotiate a new agreement. Tlie miners meantime are working under the old agreement. It is doubtful, however, whether the Buller mines will resume before Thursday as the intimation of the owners’ decision respecting a conference arrived too late to allow of the Buller unions being advised by telegraph to-night. The date of the conference is to be communicated later by the coal owners.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 10
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197WEST COAST MINES Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 10
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