NEWCASTLE DISPUTE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 699, 27 December 1909, Page 5

NEWCASTLE DISPUTE.

;} A STRIKERS! STRIKE.;; LABOUR ATTITUDE. TO NEW- LAW.. By !Tele£rat>h—Press Assoolation-Copyrljclit. . .■;.',',':/: "■ .Sydney, December 21. ! The Labour Council adopted 'a.resolution condemning .tho. now strike lbgislntion. The speakers weto of opinion that tUonpw law sounded tlio dctith-knoll of strikes'. ' ■■' '' .'. >■' ' ' '■''. ' " ' At a mooting of tlio; Seamen's Federation it..WR3 decided that all members should continue' at work without interruption. [ .This ; means that they willrociaiu at work 60 long as tho: boats nro not laid up,-or'until further notico. ./ • Tho'AVotersidoAVorkors' Council recommended that the strikers on tho German etoamors should: resume, work. ..... STRIKERS OFFER CONFERENCE. , •,• ...PACIFIb ATTITUDE. .;•■ .; ■ ' ' V.(Rco. December 25, 10.35 a.m.),; ' Sydney, December 25. ' I Th« iStste Congress inet'again' and endorsed the action.of the waterside workers in continuing \wrk. .. : ,;, . :., . : Tho Congress also, carried a motion to tho effect that, tho Congress," desiring to bring faboUt an: honourable settlement of tho dispute, authorises its representatives to approach the owners with a view to settling tho trouble'.by moans of an open conference or any other-way acceptable to all tho , parties. "':■'; . : ' : i ', ■ :Tho Bunvood Extended • Hine, Nowcastlc.inll rcsumo work on Wednesday. Proforenca will bo , -given to former cm' ployccs. This mine is outsido the Coal Vend,. ; '■: : ' '•;■,'' v / - : v ''-- !; - \. •■'.

' , MR. BOWLING EE-ELECTED. ;. . ..-..V .'■'' ; ' Sydney; Decembet 24. Jtr,. V. Boiling .has:been re-elected^(pre-. sidont of the Minors'. Federation.) '.'■'.'..■ ■;.' STRIKEAT STRIKEIrS , MINES. :';' • LEVT"OBJECTED TO. /, /■: ■ ■ ■■'■■ ■•'.-.•';. /.-■ Sydney, .December. 24... ' Tho workers' co'-operatire niines, : rtho Ebbw 'Main -and Xoung, Wallsend,' aro idle, the miners, objecting to. pay .tho 25 per cont. levy, proposed by* tho Colliery Employees' Federation. Proviously they had paid 10 per' cent.. ■:'. . .:.: .1 ■:'.. VTHE ; IRONY- OF if." : ■ ;' PEEVIOUS. STeS~AT MAIN. Under' tho 'heading, of. "The '■ Irony o{. It," a. Newcastlo.inessago,.i]i..tho "Sydney ' Morning. - Herald," dated,-December IC, records a previous ■ "strike, at' -the strikers' mine." This was at the Ebbw Main, whore one: shift declined work, on tho ground 'that-non-unionists -were lug employed.' Tlie.'pfflwirs ;of the Miners' federation .were surprised, at' this. They,"cqually. : .with-. the owners, wero unaware that non-unionists-were working at tho Main,.- but- they promised to givo,utgent instructions that- the next, shift should igo to worK as.;usual; The (juestion arose whether the.Btrikers, having: Apparently struck in defiance of the federation, weiro ,to:.bi>;considered blacklegs.' ..However, 'the' federation officials fited. tho, matter: up; for 'the time.being; find, except , ; 'for '.on*.'-, shift, ■ work was carried on.. • : Tho- ; "Sydney .Mornlnj; Keralf!" of Deooinbor 18 says''.— : •''' ! '.:!' ■ .'■'.'' ' "The. first Jay .since the ; Ebbw Main and: Tbungi Ji'ajlsend.; mines :' have been worked witli. : theVco-operatibn-Miners' Federation.; Avas , liiadQ to-day. There.'.ai'o:'6oo.-men- working, at :tho -two Jninesp-'aiid ' i£l7floi, wns ,v4i.s.ti;ib.uted;, in; wages.'. Those figures, however, 'db. not' indicate the average. eatned'.-by-:-, each" iuan;. i, jSmne,.pf. tho, men. haye : . been at ■'work'fp'r'prbbably'-.oiily-'pnbfo'r'two'days l for the.fqr.tiiight ended on ; Friday':, last,' for. wl(ich'*tl») pay,; was made fat Young Wallsend.'•.' Several of .!tho miners, who Worked, full tini6.;earned as niuoli as £1 per.shift, and at Ebbw , -Mainsthe'.wage; in" soino instances' was as Wkli :as .£l2' for'.tcn shifts.;;,rThis- general averase earned by. the. miners was. from 17s.'6d, (o 235.: pbr shift. ;.For;;the■■ current•'•lort■niglit.v the• waßcs will,be eq-ually", nigh;.", v