The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1908. DEFYING THE LAW.
The announcement tliat the coail miners at Blackball refused to work on Tuesday because the law was being made operative in regard to a recent striker who had refused to obey the verdict of the Court, throws an important light upon the extremely unsatisfactory condition of industrial matters in the Dominion at the present time. The bailiff was instructed to auction goods distrained for an unpaid debt, precisely as ho is doing every day in different parts of the Dominion, but 'because the victim happened to Lo one of tho Blackball miners and the debt an industrial line, the miners apparently considered themselves justified in stopping the work of the mine for a day. The next stop, we presume, will be to demand pay for the timo 'tlrus lost. Iho incident is instructive in showing to what depths of contempt the supineness of tho Governmen t has brought out - labor ‘legislation- amongst tho workers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2214, 11 June 1908, Page 2
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167The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1908. DEFYING THE LAW. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2214, 11 June 1908, Page 2
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