COLLIERY DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 751, 25 February 1910, Page 5

COLLIERY DISPUTE

;::^v^:\^: /; .;-' ; an;.impasse... : ;-;-.:;.:;.v ■■; By ToleßrEpU-Pteßs Aseqoiatloh-Ciopirrieht. t ■'.;;:: V:(Rec.i February 25, 0.30. a.m.) .'.. ■" .'. 'J , ; I'">:\i ..[•■■ ■ '■'':■' ;■•."'" Sydney,iFebruary 24.' ■ The". negotiations- 'Sot. ;the,;settlement of the ~> Newcastle; ■'• cbllioiT;v : .'dispute ■ havp reached an impasse. , .;•.:.: ■;'•',."'■. ; '.When' the-Wages'- Board; met.' to-day Judge Scholes, .who. had-previously, con-, f erred . with J . the'--' proprietors, ■■■;-" after .a lengthy reviewing of: the negotiations an-; iounced that the proprietors'; fbok.up tho. positipn that their'. promiso to take• back': employees: .referred only, to ,; members of the.Northern Colliery. Employees'.jedera-tion.-f and;.would, not bo heia .v.'to* .include members..of individual unions'not in the Federation. .They saidvthey did;not;in'tend, to -sacrifice .the. menvwho- came ..to their,aid "during the■strikeVto: make room for-■;others. .'"Judge '". Scholes" asked Mr. I Charlton, :'the. me^'s. '^representative,.';to carefully,' .consider.. the .-position .and ■, to; make, ai suggestion, if -possible, .to over-. come 1 the .difficulty. :■;■. ' -.■ "• ''■'.. ■■: V- ■'■■': ■■'■-■:■■';:' .v' l

rMr. : iCharlton suggested : ,that''the pro-- . priotprs ..should - meet'■; the"; representative ;6f 'the,, ; men and -talii.things.. oyer. : . ;If the;position':, could .be...defined .-'something might I be, done..- r , '■'.. ■ .■;',. ;;! ; ; ,■';.. /;.,-■ '■■-: ■ .•■•. • .£-: :; Nothing .was : : definitely.■■■.decided , !:.when\ the Court adjourned till itb-morrow; , ; :.

! In 'the! meantime it ; is understood; that an';effort,. .willy be ■'.-. made... to' preach some solution. ;: :" ; v v'.'Y..''-" , ';;!'-.* '''-..■ ■ '.'•"', '

[According to a cabled rumour, the proprietors; refuse to','re-engage : some engine-; drivers .and ;firemen, '-K-hoi, 'they ,claim, "left theminthe strike occurred; .These? men would, .of ~course,: be outside":theilliners , :federation.]-.. "-, -