NOT A STRIKE
CONDITIONS AT TAWA FLAT.
STOPWORIC MEETING HELD. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The stoppage of work at Tawa Flat was not a strike. It was decided to hold a stop-work meeting to discuss the conditions under which the men are working, and as three shifts arc running the stoppage was from midnight. As the result of deliberations it was decided that a deputation should endeavour to meet the Public Works Minister on his return from the North next week and place the men’s grievances before him.
In a statement explaining that the stop-work meeting was called owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the reply of ’the Department to the men’s representations regarding their conditions, Mr Cook, secretary of the New Zealand Workers’ Union, says to safeguard against water rising in the tunnel during the meeting all necessary men, such as pump men and electricians,, were notified that they should continue working. It was not a strike, hut just a matter of convenience so that all the men could attend.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17964, 8 March 1930, Page 9
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172NOT A STRIKE Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17964, 8 March 1930, Page 9
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