NEW ZEALAND LABOUR TROUBLES

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11748, 7 February 1919, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND LABOUR TROUBLES

THE BLACKBALL MINE CP«r Press AseosiatiOß.l Greymonth, February 6 There was no change to-day in the position at Blackball, the mine men going underground as usual but no coal being got out. The management, however, to day dismissed a few of the men. The miners have aa yet made no move to submit the dispute tribunal. A miners’ meeting la being held to-night. The result is not yet known. Twenty-one men refuse to resume production on Monday. The management intendpto notify them that the mine thereafter will be closed down.

WRECKERS OF BRITISH TRADE. DESTROYING FOUNDATIONS OP SOCIETY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Received Feb 7, noon, Loudon, Feb 5. Mr Roberts states that the real danger to-day is the loss of our markets and decline of the demand for employment, which brings irreparable suffering. The strikers are not injuring employers but destroying the very foundations of society. Other Labour M’s.P. have made equally emphatic pronouncements in view of the seriousness of the issues involved. The public's convenience is regarded as trilling, but the streets yesterday presented a remarkable scene— ’buses and trams were crowded and hundreds of thousands were forced to walk many miles to and from work. There were long ’bns queues at every stopping place and many unceremoniously boarded motor lorries and tradesmen’s carts. Scores of soldiers from France had to walk across London with a fall kit and expressed keen indignation against the strikers.