LABOUR DISPUTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17544, 10 April 1919, Page 5

LABOUR DISPUTES.

(Per Press Association-) DUNEDIN, April 9. f.. A meeting of employees ifrectly ■^UL. Interested in the dispute.at Roslyn \ Woollen Mills was held to-day. The dispute centred round the position of the Bub-foreman and the directors! offered to re-instate him in his old position. A complete settlement waseffected on the Basis of the re-in- * statement of the sub-foreman and the re-employment of the workers concerned JLa the dispute. It is understood all hands will resume work on Friday morning. In an official statement regarding . the dispute with the employers the Green Island Miners' Union states that two points are at issue—trucking conditions aa they affect the miner and the filling of household ... coal. The Union claims that the condition providing that a miner shall truck coal four chains is not' j conducive to the employment of the I best method of handling coal after •it leaves the face, and that it is impossible for some men to carry out ■ this condition under the present circumstances. Regarding the filling of household coal, the Union claims that the spirit of the agreement is not observed by the employers, as all household coal filled tn excess of orI den is paid for at engine coal rates, meaning a loss in some cases of Is. to ss. per day in the wages of miners. • Another meeting of miners was held thi&<morning, but was adjourned as no communication had been received^ f com the employers.