THE GREEN ISLAND STRIKE.
• tl , , (Per Press Association.} - ,;, yr . DUNEDIN, this day. Matters m connection with the?-dis-pu<ijßb,,between- the: men employed' at Chiistie'e Gneei'i , lelana. mine .and <the epipiioyer^r -are,, unchanged, both sides pcrsieting iii t-heir deteitmination not to waV(?r v ;|., The men say they are determined r y. not. to return, to- • vrt>i*k unless a jigae erected, YWshile- the owners say thai there is * absolutely no reason >rhy t„e men* should not start- again; i Mr Christie^, : miner manager; states tliat •t he jig as. pupposed originally was only to take coa,l from above the present workings, and all the men, -underneath -would still have had to truck on the roads, a position which the ' men = clearly when the jig was talked about. The mine is there to start work m wher they like, he concluded, on the sam< conditions as previously, and if they dc not like to start it' can be stalled up.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12752, 2 May 1912, Page 2
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155THE GREEN ISLAND STRIKE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12752, 2 May 1912, Page 2
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