THE WEST COAST MINERS.
A LETTER TO MR. JUSTICE SIM
CONSOLIDATED COMPANY ENDEAVORING TO RECRUIT AIEN.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM] _ REE ETON, Oct. 10. The Inangahua Miners’ Union lias despatched a, lengthy letter to Air Justice Sim, President of the Arbitration Court, relative to his refusal to agree to the appointment- of an arbitrator and the Union states His Honor had the power to appoint arbitrator without the consent of either or both parties. . . The Inangahua Aliners Union is informed from Christchurch that the agent- of the Consolidated G.F. Cornpan v is there endeavoring to recruit men.
A new development has occurred in the mining dispute. All miners in the district applied to the Commissioner of Conciliation to interfere in the dispute. The applicants claim that they shall have the right to require stopping and all other descriptions of mining operations to be done by contract subject to the provisions of clause 5 of the industrial agreement now subsisting between the applicants and respondents. In the case of one man charged with using obsene language to a mine manager, adjourned last Court day, the Magistrate fined the accused £7. The Conciliation Commissioner will sit here on October 16.
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Gisborne Times, 11 October 1912, Page 5
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197THE WEST COAST MINERS. Gisborne Times, 11 October 1912, Page 5
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