CLAIM BY MINERS
PLAINTIFFS NON-SUITED. [ Per Press Association. | INVERCARGILL, Nov. 18. A civil action of considerable interest to miners in Southland and elsewhere, being the sequel to a dispute between the management and the men of the Linton Coal Company, occupied rhe 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 the 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 H. J. Mac Alister, for the defendant company, contended that the go-slow policy at the Linton mine and not the new regulations had resulted in the decreased output and the consequent drop in wages. After hearing the evidence the Magistrate said that plaintiffs had failed signally to prove their case, and nonsuited plaintiffs ami granted costs to the defendant company.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 427, 19 November 1930, Page 8
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167CLAIM BY MINERS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 427, 19 November 1930, Page 8
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