MINING DEADLOCK
PROSECUTIONS NEXT MONTH. The prosecutions of the mine owners and miners will be heard in Greymouth about the middle of January, says the Greymouth correspondent of the Christchurch Press. Mr C. A. Berendsen, of the Labour Department, Wellington, has been on a visit to the West Coast, and it is reported that the action to be taken has been definitely decided. The Unions will be charged as separate entities with inciting and abetting a go-slow policy in the mines, which is a breach of the award and comes within the meaning of a strike under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. It has not apparently been decided to prosecute the Miners’ Council, but the men will be charged individually with putting into operation a go-slow policy. It is understood a single case from each mine will be taken as a test for the whole of these proceedings. The various mine-owning companies will likewise be proceeded against fcr breaches of the Act and award by a lock-out.
The Semple tunneling party has contri buted another £lOO to the miners’ funds.
An important conference of coal owners has been held in Wellington during the last couple of days. Mr B. Davidson, the miners’ delegate to Australia, returned to-day, to the West Coast. He states that the support from Australia will be in the neighbourhood of £lOOO per week.
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Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 6
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228MINING DEADLOCK Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 6
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