The Miners Union.
' Is the current issue of the Wailii paper ' correspondent signing himself " A Miner' put the following query:—«ls the Miners' Union merely a benefit society, or is it formed for the protection of the interests o: miners in general ?" He then goes on to (■ay : *• If the latter, how is it that an upstart manager, quite recently a common miner himself, can reduce the current rnte of wages in WaiH from nine shillings for sinking: to eight shillings, which is below the standard even in such a place as BaKarat, where labour is as plentiful as fn any town iv the colonies, the rate being 8s 4d for six henrs in that district for sinking aa our local wage redncer knows for 'rertaia ? How is it. I ask, that he can do this without the slightest move being made to try to prevent him ? If he can do it, the Directors of other companies will be certain to follow suit. Hoping some abler pen than mine will take the matter up, etc.
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Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8619, 25 March 1897, Page 3
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174The Miners Union. Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8619, 25 March 1897, Page 3
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