A “STOP WORK" MEETING.
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MINERS. (Per Press Association.] GREYMOUTH, September 26. At the Magistrate’s Court, the Inspector of Awards brought an action to recover £5 penalty for a breach of the Blackball Coal Miners’ Award. The action was brought under clause 29, which deals with absence from work without the sanction of the manager, unless due to sickness or accident. Mr for the Department, jM r P- J- O’Regan for tb© union., Mr O Regan admitted the facts, and the breach, and pleaded justification. T3ie Magistrate stated that they were the first cases of holding a stop-work meeting brought as breach of the award, and he would simply record judgment for the plaintiff and not inflict the nominal penalty. 'He ordered defendants to pay counsel's fee, ten guineas, witnesses’ expenses, £2 Is Bd. and warned them that for future breaches he would inflict the full penalty. “Two hundred and fifty miners were proceeded against.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12755, 26 September 1919, Page 8
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156A “STOP WORK" MEETING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12755, 26 September 1919, Page 8
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