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Strike On Tavua
60 Miners Dismissed
From Our Own Correspondent.
SUVA, Sept. 29.
OWING to the fact that several half caste miners have refused to acknow ledge a new schedule of wages, a strike has occurred at the Tavua mines. Fol lowing meetings with Mr. E. G. Theodore, the Emperor men struck, and, by the use of intimidation, induced the Loloma men to come out also.
The native workmen were in sympathy with the strikers, and demanded 6/- per shift for boss boys, 4/- for underground men, and 3/- for surface men. This was refused and the Emperor boys went on strike. They called the Loloma natives off the job, and the result was a deadlock.
However, latest reports state that the back of the strike has been broken. Mr.
Theodore said that about 60 men had been dismissed, and that the new schedule of wages—from 6/- to 12/- a shift of eight hours —was remaining in force.
Hon. J. P. Bayly, M.L.C., returned to Suva from England by the Niagara on September 18.