THE GOAL STRIKE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7257, 17 April 1895, Page 2

THE GOAL STRIKE.

MINERS AT LOGGERHEADS. * • Newoastijb, -.April 15. The ;Mayor is trying to arrange a con* ference between the coal owners and the miners' with a view to a settlement of the strike. This step is taken with the approval of thte;tniuers' delegates. „ »^.., • -■ Peter Curran, the secretary of theDacken« field Miners' Lodge, and Richard Leighton, secretary of the Back Creek Lodge, ¥oth prominent) Unionists, were arrested in connection with the recent outrage at Minim, when two pipes, charged with dynamite and stones,* were exploded near a camp of free laborers. ■'•..•■ . . ' ■" ■''■■'■ ■'■'' *-.-' • •".,;- --■, At ttigeneral meeting of the miners hew at Lambjon, flic Chairman of • the Miners 1 Association^ stated that the delegates had decided, that morning to declare all strikes off and allow each man to make the bead terms he could for returning to work. He denounced the vacillating aotion of some lodges* which refused to abide by the strike ballot. All efforts to resist the attempts of the masters to grind them down r daring the last two years, had failed through want of unanimity among the miners, TnV, leaders did not believe in strikes, but bad no- other resource. They had a promise from the southern and western district miners to? join them when they were prepared for a general strike. He also alleged that the ; miners eager to meet the maßtejdfcconference. Resolutions were carried; tho Walls and Borehole miners for refusing to abide by the strike ballot, declaring" that the miners as a body abide by it* and that the time has arrived to strike or. starve. A resolution in favor of meeting the masters in conference, and that the strike be declared off for two months, pending^ a conference) was lost. , ". - ■-■■ ••- , ■ -.