COLLIERIES STRIKE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 730, 1 February 1910, Page 5

COLLIERIES STRIKE.

. .IMPRISONED LEADERS./ ; LABOtm'S CONDEMNATION OP THE , ; : •:■■; .. ;. .. ;;;■■ ■/;.;;■ •■■■; By Teloeraiih-Preßs Asßoclation-doDytißht ''' ■■■.'.' , Sydney, January 31. . Tho. various. \ Labour- organisations throughout the Commonwealth, have' condemned tho imprisonment, iiuder, tho Industrial Disputes Act, of the strike leaders, Messrs:. Bowling, Butler, Hutton, and O'Connor. .'■••. / • . '■■.-. . r . : . '•■ Mr.;Lonsdale, a member: of the,' State Assomblyj was about to deliver a' lecture at Kurri Kurri in aid of a local institution, when one. of the audience called attention to tho fact that Mr.'Xousdale supported a. Government which had done all it could to crush them, and had.eent their; leaders to'gaol. '. ■ .. The audience thereupon quickly :walUed ; out, 1 leaving the chairman and the lecturer; alone in the. building. / ■ ..'.'". ■ , . SIGNS OF PEACE. ; ' PKOSPECTS OP A CONPEEENCE; ; .'.■,' :(Eec.' February, 1, 0.15 a.m;) .:■.■'. .i ■ '-■ . ; . Sydney, January.3i:: There-aro indications that.the colliwyowners anticipate .an'early "settlement of the strike... Horses-are, being:' returned to tho:pelawmain ; mine, whilo : men aro : employed getting,tho.mine.in order. ■ - : - '' The :• owners ' have. received the ■. request of. the .Federations 'for' , a : ferenco., Nothing, is likely. to;.be'done till the owners meet neit week.' ■. ;'- '

.Some owners' affirm '.that' they wUI stick to-.thei*, guns, and .'will,not-confer ' till the men return ■to work. ■ ■•" '.■ ■■'"■■.■ .

~,The owners intends to. be .represented before the Wages Board .which'they at : first ignored), and state that thatis an open conference, miners ;will- be-lite-wise, represented, and'wHl; go. back io ■ owners.will ::be, willing to the object of shortening the: proceedings before.- the: Wages Board '-