DISPUTE AT GLENAFTON
TWO DAYS’ WORK LOST (Per Pross Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Work at Glenafton mine; near Huntly, was stopped to-day and between (500 and 700 men have been deprived of work for two days, through the miners taking- exception to two hoys being ordered to report to the manager for failing to work full time. The men stated that two boys working on the surface became wet through on Wednesday when attending to tlie screens and went home' before tliei'r allotted time. On returning to work, they were .tohl to report to the manager. The men objected to the boys being reprimanded and decided not to w.ork that day as a protest. The management thereupon declared the mine closed until Monday.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17498, 19 June 1931, Page 3
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