THE STAY-IN STRIKES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 248, 31 July 1937, Page 8

THE STAY-IN STRIKES.

DEMONSTRATION PREVENTED. (United Press Association —Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 30. Only a few of the strikers at the John Darling Colliery at Belmont, Newcastle, have left the mine, and these left on account of either personal or family reasons. The remainder are amusing themsevles with cards and community singing. The police to-day prevented 1500 miners and their wives and friends from making a demonstration at the top or the mine. The marchers included men from seven neighbouring collieries, who bore down on the John Darling pit singing “Tipperary,” crying “Solidarity for ever!” and waving red flags. The police handled the situation tactfully and no disorder occurred, although the police ' were subjected to considerable heckling .and banter. The northern miners’ vice-president (Mr Henry Scanlon) addressed the men and urged them to remain calm. The reason for the strike of 187 men at the John Darling Colliery is the refusal/of the management to reinstate a wheeler for allegedly striking a pit pony on the head with a wooden sprag. The strikers smuggled into the mine sufficient food for six days. COLLAPSE OF THE STRIKE. AFTER OWNERS’ ULTIMATUM. (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The stay-in strike in the John Darling Colliery collapsed abruptly at 8 o’clock last evening. All the men left the mine after the announcement by the Broken Hill Company’s manager that the company was not prepared to submit to further humbugging, and intended to close their mines at _ John Darling, Burwood and Lambton indefinitely unless they received assurances of a continuity of work.