THE GOAL TRADE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13658, 29 July 1908, Page 5

THE GOAL TRADE.

CONFERENCE AT .DUNE-BIN:

NO SETTLEMENT ARRIVEP AT,

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..-, DUNEDIN, July .58*: < J The conference between the and employers was. continued att Greejn Jg«' Jand. to-day, and the clauses pf the men's' reference to the 'Arbitration. Court furils]J considered. .'*.'.' •

■ Agreement was obtained ori all itie spialler. and lees important points; bitfi i>n ■ v *3ie main points in dispute both sides were obdurate. Then at 8 o'clock this ierening tbe conference en4ed> practical $0 settlement was arrivedi at. ■•'■'-'■'" ".• '-* A mass meeting of Green Island miners was then held in camera, aiid'' after •-an hour's deliberation a motion was -.iinttnjK mously carried that the "men ,appfcw'o£' nothing done at the conference arid that! tlw employers' offers be nob. entertained!. This resolution. was communicated to' thei employers by .'; the ' men's;' representatives who ejtated that fh> ehiplQJfeesi wo'iild r p&b . giveaway on ahyffcirigle point. '•' 356& V^ 6T f, prepared to tafe tine dispute. befpKir' j&& Arbitration Court, /and should ob'tHjii satisfaction there, .they pared i!o cease work in a body. an3 : jJ»w«f; for some other country or district. they could obtain a; living, and mere existence. .... ■ " ..'" "...-. ■'':.'■..

The employers speaking, to the gretted that,., an amicable not been arrived at by the hoped, tliat) the Arbitration yei'prove tKepi^iips' pi ju/itiiig matters.. . ,'^,; : \ ti ',J^j<? : 4-. ' The, Allahdaleemployers, and confer to-morrow in the Green Application will be made to tha' Goirrt morrow for the hearing of the'dispu^*