THE HIKURANGI STRIKE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18791, 29 May 1923, Page 4

THE HIKURANGI STRIKE

SERIOUS POSSIBILITIES. LPe.r Press Association, j WELLINGTON, May 28. The strike of miners at Hikurangi has not been settled. It is probable that the Miners’ Federation will be interesting itself iu tile trouble. Fresh steps are to be taken to bling it to a satisfactory ending. It is alleged on the miners’ behalf that there lias been victimisation in con ueetion with notices given to several employees at Fool and Doel's mine, and at the end of last week all the miners at Hikurangi, comprising over one hundred men, came out in sympathy with other members of the local union involved in the trouble. The northern district council of the Miners’ Federation has recommended the Hikurangi strikers to return to work, and declare Foot and Doel’s mine black, but no information has so far been received here as to who ther this information has been acted upon. Mr P. O'Rourke, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, stated that bis organisation would assert every effort to secure justice to the men concerned, and that the tactics of tlio miue owners would not be taken lying down. ‘‘There are all the elements of serious troi/ilc in this dispute unless it is fixed up satisfactorily,” declared Mr O’Rourke.