COALMINERS' DEMANDS
♦ OWWESS' UNCOMPROMISING ATTITUDE. MINISTER PREPARED TO ACT. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The Coal Miners' Federation is still pressing for a conference with the mine owners, but the owners steadfast, ly refuse to meet the Federation. Thev are prepared for the several companies to meet the unions of the employees in their own mines, but further than this the\ will 'lot go. Their contention is that, having offered the men substantially better terms than those they accepted for the course of the war. they have dealt with them generously and cannot lie reasonably expected to make further concessions. The men are d.mmding a further advance of 20 per cent, in wages and the employers' reply to this is that if the men will apply themselves seriously to work under the new conditions, they can earn this advance without any undue effort The Minister of Mines is watching developments and is prepared to act in case of emergency.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13811, 16 July 1918, Page 4
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