Maitland Strike

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 5

Maitland Strike

WHAT THE MINERS ASIC 'THERE WILL BE A FIGHT." By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 4. 12.30 a.m. Sydney, June 4. A deputation representative of tho various coal-mining district* submitted to Mr. Canu numerous proposed amendments of the Mining Act, including limiting the hours of underground workers I to eight hours from bank to bank, and the abolition of all night work, excepting emergency developmental labor. Those proposals involve the abolition of the afternoon, shift. Mr. Watson, president of the Northern Miners' Association, claimed that if the individuals who held the monopoly of the trade allowed them to work only one shift it would tend to the development of the industry. Mr. Cann replied that he intended to try to give effect to the eight-hour principle, but was not prepared to agree to abolishing the afternoon shift. It depended on Whether the miners were strong enough to insist on its abolition. He thought they would have to get down. Mr. Watson interjected: They may, but there, will he a struggle. Mr. Cann promised his sympathetic consideration of most the other suggesI tions. COAL BOATS LYING UP. By Telegraph—Press Association. m Christchurch, Last Night. The Union S.S. Co. has decided, in consequence of the Maitland collieries strike, to lay up their big collier, the Waihora. She has just finished discharging a cargo of Maitland coal at Lyttelton, and was to have left on hej> return this evening for another, but hasinstead been laid tip at Lyttelton, ana 'the crew paid off.