CALLED A FARCE
MINERS’ ABSENTEEISM FLOUTING REGULATIONS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Monday “The whole thing is a farce,” said a representative of the mine owners today when commenting on the action of miners at Glen Afton and other mines in the Huntly district in failing to appear on Saturday despite the fact that they had agreed to work on alternate Saturdays from May to September to relieve the coal shortage. “The Government has introduced' legislation compelling workers in essential industries to attend work regularly. Here is a glaring instance where the regulations have been deliberately flouted,” he said. He added that the MacDonald mine was able to work on Saturday, but not to full capacity. He said it was understood that the question of absenteeism would be discussed among other matters at a conference between the Government and representatives of the coal mine owners in Wellington this week.
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Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21737, 25 May 1942, Page 2
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