COLLIERY DISPUTES
MANY MINERS IDLE THREAT OF FURTHER TROUBLE GENERAL STRIKE MAY FOLLOW SYDNEY, Jan. 21. The miners in the western group collieries are indignant at the alleged refusal of the Railway Commissioners to hear their claims for increased wages and improved conditions. They threaten a general strike if nothing is done before the mass meeting next week. There are 1700 miners idle in the Northern field as the result of separate disputes in five collieries.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19748, 22 January 1927, Page 5
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