KAITANCATA GOAL MINES.
A THREATENED CRISIS. [Per Press Associaiion.^ DUNEDIN, January 20. At a stop-work meeting of Kaitangata miners. yesterday, a letter was read from the Kaitangata Oil and Coal Company, stating that owing to the failure during the last three days of many of the company’s employees to start work at the propel time the management notifies all employees that the mine would be open as usual for work to-day, and any men failing to start at the proper time, except for sickness, will bo considered to have left the company’s employ. It is stated that lamps were refused yesterday afternoon by many, and no men on the afternoon shift entered the mine. The men are determined to stand firm, only three or four men on tho day shift working, and if the night shift join the majority, matters will reach a crisis.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16330, 20 January 1921, Page 8
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144KAITANCATA GOAL MINES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16330, 20 January 1921, Page 8
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