The Blackball Strike, 1908

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The Blackball Strike, 1908

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On 26 February 1908, seven miners at the small West Coast town of Blackball were fired for taking longer than their allocated fifteen minutes for lunch (‘crib time’). This action would lead to one of the first major strikes in many years, and an upsurge in labour militancy that has not been matched since. In the Blackball mine, miners had only...

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Archives New Zealand / Archives / Archives NZ / Art / New Zealand / NZ / NZ History / History / Cartoon / Labour / Labour History / Strike / West Coast / Blackball / Miners / Mining / School / publication / arbitration

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