IDLE MINERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 710, 8 January 1910, Page 5

IDLE MINERS.

THE NORTH OF;ENGLAND;CRISIS... '_ ;,: MEN.OTJT, : -70',000. ; V :-.- '', By Telegraph-Press Association^Copyriisnt.. ■'■ ■'' '■.•''iiri: ... January;. 6. ■' In connection-TitK.tte-North land colliery.trouble, 70,000 men are idle in Northumberland and Durham.' ; ; Coal is dribbling:,in,BmaU-quantities', the shipping.ports. ■ - ':■■■;■■■■;:■.■ ■■; f\ t -■'■■'^, r -:'c': ■'•

. .The- owners expect,a /settlement;;'; but : the,union executive officers' arc.pessimistic, '. their' agents;; haying bo: far/failed to' persuade jthe- mDn : .to^ield;;';V".';! :: i-;

, .NEW WALES: tfiSPIJTE}:-: : THECHAEGES TJNDEE THe'neV ■■ -~:- : ■• ■■ -.' ■ ACT " -: " ~ ■-■.?-'■';'- :i! '. '■'■ :■> ■■ Sydney,-''jaimary : -;7;;;; ■ -Judge,' Eodgera 7 has; been: appointed' to' .hear'',;theVAarees"v-against-:>Mr.';v.-Peter'' Boifling : and ■ dthers;: - charged ■- with .a breach of the neiy.; jlridnstrial AciV; in. addressing>a;' meeting,:: ; in 'the southern ■district!;.(whero"the miners l -are ,still "ouf' inysympathy-;with'.the,:nor! thern : nieh)::vV- ; ' ,: > ■•'?'!; ;.yiO ; '"■:,-'-'-V-.'; ■•■ • i .'-.'.'■

[The.new;-.Act"is'designed to ■moro' tidequatoly.prptectvpublic. utilities :by-'pro-Tidmg a penalty of...tirelve, montlis';, im- ; pnsbnmont forany personUvhp' takes': part, in a .'mooting:believing .that Such.-'may' continue a fetrike ,oi' lopkoutj and so : dei' prive!.the: pnblic.'ofi-coal,: gas; water/sor necessary;;': food.- -.";. Judge'Eodgers .is l appointed :in place' of Judge Heydon/ who expressed .'-a. .hope;: that 'in:'• viewv of. his previous: associations .with'-Jlr.'-Bowliiig in labours inqriiries, the atrial woaldlbe placed in the hands of some other judge.]

DECEEASE IN THE VICTOEIAN COiL i IMPORT

:\ •■: v■'■;'.'■■;, ■ -The coal imported.into.Melbourne; list , 7?Mv\ftiipaiitedttp.--926j'0ro'''toae 1 " : - , a9'>.'cofii' :parea-;;with Ji1.172,000 preceding: year.;•; The decrease' : is"the:•result; of-tlie Newcastle,strike..-,-f.i';•'.;-. .v\ v^'J^;,? v r.

;. TEMPOBAJiKEBpSMi; TO I I \<: : - ; ;■] ": January ,Br.iXa;mi) ■;: \> V? j ■::■!• v ' ; .^^ VSydney, 'January )-?.:& V The. -work; of-.:;loading the'.Onion .Com- 1 pany's;, Jlaraina'i?was;;delayed>for'.four hoars . this" morning, giving' toi ■'.the ■ wharf labourers being under .the impression : that the '.busier coai; .oMained ;.at ■.Nowcastls. ires ;the, .non-union. ;labburU•;£ '.'After .union (offii.cials;:; work;- Was .i'started.-Vand^prpcee'decl^ smoothly[,M' ; : : !i^4:e'f^:^y-f'