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• ♦ • MINES READY. BUT NO MEN WILLING TO MAN THEM. LATEST DETAILS. (Dy Telccravh.-Press AesocUtlon.-OnDjrlsht.) (Eco. December H, 0.5 n.m.) SytJnoy, Decorator 13, When tlio whittles woro blown for work in tlio Southern apd the "Western colliories, not ft single minor responded. The Northern minors also showed no inclination to go back to uork under the conditions suggested by Mr. Wade. CONSPIRACY; CHARGES. AGAINST THE STRIKE LEADERS. (Eeo. December 14, 0.5 a.m.) Sydney, December 13. Tho heating of the charges against the minors' officials, Messrs. Bowling, Bronnan, Burns, Lewis, and Grey, has commenced at Newcastle. There Has a great crowd of'strikers inside and'outside tho Court. There was no demonstration. The Crown case charges tho fivo accused with being persons of evil minds and dispositions who unlawfully and uickcdly conspired, combined, and confederated to instigate tho ■ employees, coalminers, wharf labourers, coal lumpers, and coal trimmers to do an act m the nature of a strike. • By the assistance of documents fonnd in the Trades Hall and elsewhere, accuseds' connection pith tho ovents which led to tho strike wore traced. WHARF LABOURERS AflD MR. BOVVUNG. LIGHTING SUPPLIES. , ~ Sydney, Deceniber'l3. A meeting of the,wharf labourers at Newcastle arrived at a decision similar to that of the Sydney wharf labourers (viz.," not to strike tmu to obey the Strike Congress). ' OWNERS' ALLEGED ATTITUDE. 1 Sydney, December 13. Mr. Peter Bowling, addressing a meeting at Knrriknrrl, said waterside workers must conio out. That was the only way to'got a settlement. Enough coal ha? been secured to koop the city gas going till the middle of January. The Gas Company has given the employees till nppn to-day to decided if thoy will unload tho company's coal.' ' ' l i Tho report of tho Director of Labour showed that at tho end of November there wero nearly Psoo_ persons idle in various trades other than mining. Sinco thon tho number has greatly increased. ~~-~ Mr. W. M. Hughes, president of-the Wharf Labourers' Union, and spokesman of tho Strike Congress, states that lie is informed on good authority that tho Northern proprietors have decided not to open their mines before February.s, and thaf'overy proposal for n settlement before that date will bo refused. Some of tho owners deny that any such decision has boep como to. <