THE WAIHI MINERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 91, 7 June 1911, Page 6

THE WAIHI MINERS.

DEMAND. FOR HIGHER WAGES REFUSED. SERIOUS TROUBLE ANTIC]PATE!) (Per Press Association.) Waihi. June 7. A crisis has arrived in connection will) the demands by the _ Miners’ Union on the mining companies. Ihe miners and employers were in conl'eronce vesterday for - a considerable time, and the result was made known 1 1 1 i morning bv a written coin inimical ion from the ■ companies to the union. Excepting :l concession of sixpence per shift extra for surface labourers.: how receiving 7s fid, and one or two minor matters, every demand was absolutely refused. A special meeting of the union has lieeii called for this evening to receive and consider the delegates’ repoi b. The increases in wages demanded by the union, mean an average of about la fid per shift per man in all blanches of mining and battery ivnrk. '[’here is much anxiety in town as to the future developments of the trouble, which involves about 2500 hands. Mr. Semple, organiser of the Federation, is in V'. aiid, and ■ will" attend the meeting to-night.