MAGISTRATE DISMISSES CLAIM BY COAL MINERS.
Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, November 18. A civil action of considerable interest to miners in Southland and elsewhere, being a sequel to the dispute between the management and men of the Linton Coal Company, occupied the attention of the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Eleven miners claimed varying sums, the difference in each case between the minimum shift wage on tonnage rates and the amounts they alleged they had been able to earn since cutting and holing regulations had been insisted upon. Such was the volume of evidence presented that the Court was obliged to resume for some time this evening. Mr IT. J. Macalister for the defendant company contended that a “go slow” policy at the Linton mine and not the new regulations had resulted in a decreased output and a consequent drop in wages. After hearing evidence the Magistrate said that the plaintiffs had failed signally to prove their case and he non-suited plaintiffs and granted costs to the defendant company.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19231, 19 November 1930, Page 3
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