STRIKE AT MINE
SEVENTY MEN IDLE * WORK RESUMED AFTER TWENTYFOUR HOURS (Per United Press Association) WHANGAREI, Jan 10. After having been on strike for 24 hours, the men at the mine of Kamo Collieries, Ltd., resumed work at about 4 o’clock this afternoon. Trouble developed between the mine management and the men on Monday afternoon, when five men who had taken extended leave during the week-end were stood down for a further day. The men concerned had been engaged on one of the trucking shifts, and members of the other trucking shifts struck in sympathy, throwing the whole mine out of operation and idling 70 men. When the five men agreed to_ recommence work at the time stipulated by the management late today. operations were recommenced.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23704, 11 January 1939, Page 5
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126STRIKE AT MINE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23704, 11 January 1939, Page 5
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