STATE MINES TROUBLE.
DISPUTE SETTLED. GREYMOUTH, August 17. The general manager of the State mines, Mr J. A. James, on arrival here, met the representatives of the State Miners’ Union and the Railway Department in conference. A settlement was effected after considerable discussion. The terms are those originally submitted to the departments concerned by the Miners’ Union on Wednesday last, providing for miners’ trains departing and returning not earlier than 6.35 a.m. or later than 4.40 p.m. respectively, and being purely passenger trains, suburban fare rates to apply. The union later to-day at Runanga met and accepted the terms of settlement unanimously, and agreed to resume work to-morrow morning.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3467, 24 August 1920, Page 22
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