TRUCKING COAL BY MINERS
SUGGESTION TO RELIEVE LABOUR SHORTAGE
Whether coal miners could truck as well as hew coal to meet the shortage of labour in the mines was a point raised at a sitting of the Man-Power Committee in Invercargill yesterday by the secretary (Mr J. W. Hinchey), when the representative of a company appeared to appeal for a trucker called for territorial service. Mr Hinchey said he understood that in the last war, when labour was very short in the mines, the miners trucked the coal in addition to hewing it. If that system was adopted again it might improve the labour position.
The company representative said miners had already done a certain amount of trucking, but the company had had to stop the practice as the output of coal was below requirements. Many of the miners were old men and trucking was not an old man’s job. For that reason it was impracticable to adopt the system suggested by Mr Hinchey.
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Southland Times, Issue 24596, 19 November 1941, Page 6
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164TRUCKING COAL BY MINERS Southland Times, Issue 24596, 19 November 1941, Page 6
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