GREY VALLEY COAL COMPANY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6888, 25 June 1890, Page 3

GREY VALLEY COAL COMPANY.

[Per Pbesb Association.] GRKYMOUTH, June 24. The following is a copy of a telegram sent by Mr Kennedy, Managing Director of the Grey Valley Coal Company, to Mr Bishop, Mine Manager for the same body : —"The late changes in the arrangements with the miners are making the weekly loss so serious that it is impossible to continue it. Consult the Miners' Association as to when they could meet me to discusb the position. I will come down immediately. Ask the Association to consider the matter in all its bearings, as a collapse would be ruinous to all con- ' cerned, the district included. We are willing to work the mine on the cooperative principle, or in any way they wi3h, so that the basis of working will be : equitable." AUCKLAND, Junk 24. Contributions of £20 from the Dunedin j Bootmakers'} Union, and JE2O from the Thames Miners' Union, were received j yesterday on behalf of the tailoresses on j strike. The weekly pay of the strikers . ranges from £23 to £29, but this will be I decreased, as many of the tailoressea are to Ibe employed by other firms. The masters had agreed not to employ any girls who had gone out on strike, but the Union then threatened tojcall out all the|employees, and the combination was broken up. DUNEDIN, June 25. ■ There are now six thousand men in Dunedin, members of either the Maritime Council or the Trades Council. In the Colony there are forty thousand affiliated to labour organisations. A full meeting of the members of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and j Joiners was held last night at the Welling- j 1 ton Hotel, Mr G. Evans in the chair. Six ! new members were admitted and a quani tity of routine work was done. The arrangei ments for this evening's meeting of representatives of the building trade were ! reported, and a letter read from the Trades 1 and Labour Council stating that the | I President and as many delegates as could | attend would do so ; also that Mr F. S. ' Parker had promised to preside. A demonstration of the General Railway Workers' Union was held in Hyde Park on I May 11. The men marched thither from ' the Victoria Embankment, with bands and ! banners, and speeches were delivered from four improvised platforms. At the principal one, Mr Cuninghame Graham, M.P., moved a resolution demanding higher . wages and reduced hours for railway men; Mr John Burns said they wanted from two to three millions of the profits of the railways now distributed among the shareholders to add to the comforts of the employees, and that if the directors did not concede their demands it would be necessary to agitate for the nationalisation of our railways on the trunk lines. The resolution was passed at all the platforms.