A MINERS’ STRIKE.
BOTH SIDES FIRM. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, May 3. A meeting of representatives of the miners in the Green Island district was held to-night to consider the position in regard to the dispute at Christie’s mine, a resolution being unanimously passed pledging the meeting to stand solidly by the men on strike, and to take every step necessary to get relief for the men concerned.
Mr. Ridd, secretary of the Otago Coal Minors’ Union, states that if tho dispute .does not very quickly come to a head the New Zealand Federation of Labour will take charge, amj all the men in the Green Island district would stand by their advice, and if they said “Down tools” there would not hr a pick raised.
The employers are standing by their determination not to go back on their position.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143782, 4 May 1912, Page 3
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140A MINERS’ STRIKE. Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143782, 4 May 1912, Page 3
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