MARRIED MEN TO WORK
MINERS’ UNION’S DECISION Press Association. GREYMOUTH, Tuesday. The Blackball miners, of whom 170 single men have received notice of dismissal owing to the mine being placed on a single shift, held a ballot to-day on the question whether the union should ask fo.r the sharing of work among all the members of the union, or should agree that married men and single men with dependents should have preference of employment. The proposal to give the men with dependents preference was carried by a majority of two to one. The voting was: For, 248; against, 104. The union will help in maintaining the dismissed men until they are able to fined work.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 445, 29 August 1928, Page 12
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115MARRIED MEN TO WORK Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 445, 29 August 1928, Page 12
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