ARRESTED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 682, 6 December 1909, Page 7

ARRESTED.

CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY. 1 STRIKE LEADERS. A HOOTING NEWCASTLE MOB. (By TelcKraph-I'icas Aaeociatlon-CoDyrliht I (Roc. December 5, 5 5 pin.) Sydney, December 5. Seventy police uoro sent from Sydney to Nencastlo last night. Mr. Peter Bowling and Mr. Brennan, secrotary of the Colliery Employers' Federation, travelled by the same train. There was a largo crowd in tho railway station at Notvcastle to uolcomo them. Shortly after thoir arrival tho police arrested Messrs. Bowling and Brennan on a chargo of conspiracy. Later, Mr. Burns, treasurer of tho Amalgamated Coal ana Shalo Workers' Union, was arrested. Laigo crowds followed the arrested men to tho lock-np. Thero was somo hustling and hooting, bnt no viofenco was used. ,[The Industrial Disputes Act provides that for instigating a strike anyone is liable to a fine not exceeding tillOOO or to imprisonment not exceeding two. months.] A COMPULSORY "WAGES EOAED. (Roc. December 5, 55 p.m.) Sydney, December 5. Judge npydon, of tho Industrial Court, has nominated Mr. Forsyth (of tho Dudley Colliery, roprpsontmg tho owners) and Mr. Paterson (president of the Fedoratcd Coal and ~Shalo Workers "Union, representing tho miners), with Judge Scheles as chairman, to form a compulsory wages board.