TIME-LIMIT UP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 680, 3 December 1909, Page 7

TIME-LIMIT UP.

WILLCOAL»OWNERSANDMINERS COME. TOGETHER. STATE ACTION PROMISED .TO-DAY.-NOTHING DIVULGED. (By Teleerapb.-Proia ABSoctstlon.-OoßjrlgUM. (Rec. December 3, 1,10 a.m.) Sydney, December 2. Mr. Learmonth, chairman of the Northern Collieries Proprietors' Association, this morning had an interview' with the Premier, Mr. Wade. Subsequently a Cabinet meeting was held at Mr. Wade's residence, and discussed tho strike position, but nothing was divulged as to tho progress o£ the negotiations for bringing tho parties together, or as to tho Government's intentions in tho event'of'the failuro of these negotiations. It is belioved that the probability of the parties coming together is not promising, [In tho New South Wales Assembly yesterday, m reply to a question, tho Aeting-Promicr, Mr. Lee, stated that, as tho result of Government intervention, negotiations woro proceeding between tho parties concerned in tho strike. They had been given till Friday (to-day) to como to an arrangement, failing which a compulsory board would bo appointed on Friday. The object of. Mr. Wnde's interviews with Mr. Hughes and Mr. Learmonth is to give tho parties an opportunity of coming to 6omo arrangement so as to forestall legal proceedings by the Government to-day.]

JAPANESE COAL fOR P. AND 0, BOATS. MEN DECIDE TO WORK IT. (Eec. Decembers, 1.10 a.m.) Sydney, December 2. Thd Strike Congress considered a request by the P, and 0. Company for the Coal Lumpers' Union to discharge 6000 tons of Japanese coal which arrived to-day by the steamer Palermo, and which is intended for tho company's mail liners. Late to-night it was announced that the coal lumpers would work the coal. SECOND CO-OPERATIVE COLLIERY. (Ilec. December 3, 0.15 a.m.) iSydney, December 2. The Young Wallsend mine (the second of the two collieries—outside the Vend—which tiie strikers arc working on 'a co-operative basis) began working to-day. ~ ~ INCREASING DISTRESS. Sydney, December 2, There aro a thousand men idle in the'city, and the number is increasing daily. Further reductions are to bo made in -the railway services. WHARF WORKERS REPORTED'"OUT." (By TelcnrapU-Pr,eas ' Auckland, December 2. A privato cable message received by a shipping firm states' that tho wharf, labourers at Melbourne are on strike, and that ships are not discharging. [There is*no cabled confirmation:of tho above,] ' '