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COLLIERY UNION DISPUTE JOINT MEETINGS RUGBY, May 2.1. A niore hopeful view is taken of the prospects of an early settlement of the colliery dispute at Haworth between the local minors’ association and the rival Nottinghamshire industrial union. Growing confidence that there will he an early settlement was strengthened by developments yesterday, when the mediation of the Secretary for Mines, Captain 11. F. C. Crookshank, was successful in bringing about, a joint meeting of the federation industrial union and the local owners. It was agroed that further meetings be hold to discuss terms for the amalgamation of tli o rival unions, all parties having accepted the principle of amalgamation, and the Secretary for Mines was asked by the joint comerence to nominate a neutral chairman for the conduct of further meetings. Mr. John Forster, who recently presided over the court of inquiry into the London bus dispute, has been nominated as chairman, and the first meeting will he held on Monday. It is expected that the inquiry will last about three days.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19333, 25 May 1937, Page 5
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