BETTER PROSPECTS.
1 HE, THREATENED STRIKE AT HUNTLY AVERTED.
WORK RESUMED. {[P»a Fbebi Association.] Hamilton, September 25. A -large meeting of miners at HuntIv last night discussed the recommend-.-at.-ens of i the deputation appointed to approach the employers.. to resume work to-day. pending the settlement of ■the demands, for all->round increases. .The matter was argued at great length. The i chairman, Mr S. Dixon, who is president' of-the Union, pointed out that the directors, had promised that when a settlement was reached they would make the increase retrospective to the time of resumption. There were about ithree hundred men in the building when the motion for resumption put, and about seventy voted for ■ and twenty against it. The remainder abstained from voting; When the whistle blew this morning two hundred- and thirty men employed at the Extended mine: resumed.. Ralph's mine will not be,open for some>time Owing to repairs and necessary safeguards against further explosions not being completed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 33, 25 September 1914, Page 6
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