GOALFIELDS DISPUTE
MEETING ADJOURNED. RUGBY, Monday. The meeting of the national executive of the Mine-owners’ Federation, which was adjourned from before Christmas till to-day, has been further adjourned till after Wednesday’s conference between miners and representatives of colliery owners, when the latter have undertaken to give detailed particulars of the offer previously communicated to the men’s representatives in general terms in response to the miners’ claim for a wages advance. The owners have been in negotiation with the various categories of large scale consumers, whose supplies . are governed by long-term contracts, with a view to obtaining higher prices for coal to enable them to advance wages. The results of these negotiations and* the advances which they will render possible will be announced to the union representatives at Wednesday’s meeting.—(British Wireless.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 January 1936, Page 3
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