NEWCASTLE COAL TRADE.
A CONCILIATION COMMITTEE. By Teleeraßi-Preis Assoclatlon-Oopyilelit Sydney, February 29. The Newcastle colliery employers and employees ha7e decided to establish a joint, Conciliation Committee for the purpose of settling disputes. Mr. Charles Hibble will be the chairman. Negotiations have been proceeding in this direction .'for a considerable time, but the appointment of a chairman proved a stumbling block.
For some lime past there has been conliderable dissatisfaction in tho Newcastle raining district nt tho delays involved in submitting disputes to the State Arbitration Court. Lately itj was suggested that a committee representing both miners and coalowners should be set up and all disputes referred to; it. The idea was cordially taken up, but a difficulty arose ns to the selection of a chairman. The owners desired that an outsider, preferably a judge, should be'appointed. The miners 'did not fall in , with this, and proposed that the selection of the chairman should be left to' the State Government. : The .Labour party ..was in power, and the owners refused to accent a'chairman of their appointment. Mr. C. Hibble, who has now been chosen, is the coroner at Newcastle.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1377, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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188NEWCASTLE COAL TRADE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1377, 1 March 1912, Page 5
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