END OF THE STRIKE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5479, 25 April 1917, Page 2

END OF THE STRIKE.

SATISFACTORY MINISTERIAL STATEMENT,

Wellington, April 24

Interviewed after a meeting of the Executive, Sir Jas. Allen said he had every reason to believe that the strike was ended and that the men would resume work to-morrow, but he could make no definite statement,

In the Bailer district he had been informed that the miners were prepared by a considerable majority to go back. After considering proposals submitted to them in the Grey District, all the mines but one had carried a resolution in favour of going back.

One mine in the North Island had not submitted as the result, of a ballot.

The Minister gave an emphatic denial to a published statement that one condition of the discontinuance of the strike was the release of Semple and other prisoners. He did not think it opportune to make public at present the other conditions on whioh the men would retnrn to work.

If they returned they would return on the understanding that"(here was to be no opposition to the Mili. tary Service Act, and the “ go slow " policy was to be abandoned.