COAL MINERS' DISPUTE
SITUATION INCREASINGLY GRAVE OBJECTIONS TO INDUSTRIAL PEACE BILL ' By Telegraph-Press Aosoclation-OonyritrM (Bee. August 5, 9.10 p.m.) Sydney, August S. Tho situation in the coal industry is of increased gravity. Mr. Willis, secretory of the Miners' Federation, lias announced that the men refused to accept any settlement on the basis of the Industrial Peace Bill. He added that the position was most 6erious. The men take tho strongest objections to Mr. Hughes's industrial peace measures, because they persist in regarding the workers as wage slaves, whose standard of living must bo settled for them by their masters. The mon refuse to accept any settle ment until they are given an equal economic partnership in the community. Until this is accomplished there will nfcver again be industrial peace—Prens Assn.
SHEARERS'JiTRIKE 30,000 RENDERED IDLE. (Rpc. August 5, 9,10 p.m.) Sydney, August 5. It Is estimated that thirty thousand have been rendered idle as the result of. the. shearers' strike.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 268, 6 August 1920, Page 7
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160COAL MINERS' DISPUTE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 268, 6 August 1920, Page 7
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