WAIHI STRIKE SETTLED

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1935, Page 7

WAIHI STRIKE SETTLED

MEN RETURNING TO WORK

MUTUALLY SATISFACTORY TERMS.

THE DETAILS NOT DISCLOSED.

‘ RESULT OF LONG CONFERENCE,

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Auckland, Last Night.

A settlement of the mining strike at Waihi was reached at Auckland this afternoon after a conference lasting two days between the parties interested, the Martha Gold Mining Company (Waihi) Limited and the Ohinemuri Mmes and. Batteries Union and branch unions involved.

The dispute, which concerned wages, was said by' the Minister of Labour, Mr. Adam Hamilton, who presided at the conference, to have been settled on a mutually satisfactory basis. The men will resume work at midnight to-mor-row. The strike began at midnight on October 7. It was stated that the negotiations between the parties upon the question of wages and conditions of employment at Waihi had been in progress for some time and that the men had struck because of the failure to reach a basis Tor a new industrial agreement. Subsequently ‘ it > was stated, that. the. employers had offered, if the men went back to work, to restore'in full the conditions 'ruling prior to the 10 per. cent.. wages cut in 1931, subject to 8d of the payment a shift being regarded as h bonus. The strike continued, however, the position being said to hinge on the question whether the increased "wage rates should be made, retrospective .from May 11, • the date on" which the Martha Company came into existence!

No official statement on the position was forthcoming to-day from representatives either.'of the employers or the men. It was stated, however, that the terms of the settlement would not be made public until the union delegates had communicated them to the men. The terms had been accepted and would not have to be ratified by the unions concerned.