WAIKATO STRIKE
Inquiry This Morning WORK MAY RESUME SOON PA AUCKLAND, May 31. A special committee of inquiry into the union claim which is the basis of the Waikato coal strike will meet at the Alison Mine at 10.30 tomorrow morning and expects to report to the Minister of Mines, Mr Sullivan, in the afternoon.
All main underground and opencast mines in the area were idle for the second day today. No miners’ meetings were held during the day. Officers of the union, it is believed, have authority to call the men back to work immediately there is a settlement. It is, therefore, still possible that the mines, with their daily output of about 3000 tons, may work again before the week-end. The Minister, who is due back in Wellington from Dunedin tomorrow, should have the committee’s report in the afternoon. The committee has been set up only to advise the Minister whether the miners’ claim should be met or not, it is stated. It has no power to make a decision. There has thus been no proviso that the miners should resume work before it meets. Railway trucks are being held at Huntley in the meantime in the hopes of an early resumption of work.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27404, 1 June 1950, Page 8
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