STRIKE CHARGES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 708, 6 January 1910, Page 5

STRIKE CHARGES.

A DEPUTY-JUDGE TO HEAR THEM. POSSIBLE SETTLEMENT. ByTolegraph-PressAssoclation-CoDyrieht. (Rec. January G, 0.5 a.m.) Sydney, January 5. The Deputy-Judge of tho Industrial Court has been appointed to try Mr. Peter Bowling and other leaders of : the Newcastle miners, charged with taking part in a strike meeting on the South Coast. [This is the first charge laid under the new Industrial Disputes Act, which provides a maximum sentence of twelve months' imprisonment. Judge' Ileydon, President of the Court, yeserday expiessed a hope that he would not have to try Mr. Boiling, with whom ho hud been associated for 6everal months on a Royal Commission, and whom he had learned to respect for his mental poweis, and tho open strenuous way in which he used his reason in discussion.]

vIS THE STRIKE COMING TO AN END? 'A BOAED SUGGESTED. Sydney, January S. Tho continued idleness of tho miners' mines (Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend), which it is now announced will not again work during tho strike, coupled with Mr. Bowling's repeated assertion that tho striko is approaching a settlement, lead to the belief that important developments are likely. There is n growing opinion that Mr. Bowling intends to advise the miners ""to accept a compulsory board as a means of settling their grievances. > , Several Southern miners' lodges,, after addresses from Mr. Bowling and other leaders,' adopted , resolutions Bupportinß Mr. Bowling and tho Congress. , Tho Coal-lumpers' Union carried a similar motion.