COALMINERS TO RESUME

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1933, Page 6

COALMINERS TO RESUME

OHAI SIX-MONTH STRIKE ENDS OWNERS MAKE CONCESSIONS. AGREEMENT TO RATION THE WOPJt HIRE AND FIRE RIGHT RETAINED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. After a strike extending over six months, coalminers at the Qhai field will resume work to-morrow morning. A meeting of the union to-day considered the report of the recent conference at Christchurch and a secret ballot result- '® ©d: 144 against resumption, 113 for. As a three-fifth? majority is required to continue the strike the. miners will resum* work. , ' ' The condition? will be substantially those set out by th© owners prior to the strike with various concessions, including the right to contract through union representatives, and slight increases in wages amounting to three-farthipgs a ton at Mossbank and twopence a ton in the solid at Linton and wairaki. The companies have agreed to carry 20 per cent, more hands than the . normal requirements to run 'the pits; in other words work wfll be rationed, hut a» Mossbank, it is stated, all hands can be absorbed. The hire and fir© clause, which has been the chief bone of contention, Will remain in the agreement, th© pwnera having won their point. The agreement will expire on January 31. ? .