COAL MINERS IDLE
DISPUTE AT KAMO SETTLEMENT EXPECTED (Per Press Association.) WHANGAREI, this day. Seventy miners employed by Kamo Collieries, Limited, are striking following a dispute in connection with the supply of household coal. Under the agreement, each miner is entitled to one skip a month for 3s 3d. However, little coal suitable for household purposes was produced and the miners agreed to forgo their right.
Since then, .it is stated, they were taking coal for domestic purposes in sacks. A director of the company stated that the agreement was honoured while house coal was available, but when the supplies were short the miners were asked to take coal in bags. Now there was a sudden demand to take the coal in skips. In order that operations will not be suspended, the management will meet the requests, and it is hoped that work will resume at midnight.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19584, 16 March 1938, Page 7
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147COAL MINERS IDLE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19584, 16 March 1938, Page 7
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