SETTLEMENT TERMS
'REJECTED BY NEWCASTLE CRANE.DRIVERS REINSTATEMENT OF MEN DEMANDED Sydney, November 30. Officials of the Crane Employees’ Union met representatives of the Rail- . way Commissioners in conference, ' when certain terms of settlement were submitted by the Commissioners. y These terms were placed before a mass ■) meeting of the union later and were * rejected. The meeting decided to continue the strike until the Department agreed to reinstate the eighty-six men dismissed.
[The dismissal of the crane employ- , ees was due to the operation of the 1 •'no-overtime” strike, there not being ♦ sufficient work to justify the retention of the services of the crane drivers.]
FOUR COLLIERIES CLOSE 2000 MEN IDLE (Rec. November 30, 6.50 p.m.) Sydney,, November 30. As a result of .the crane drivers’ strike at Newcastle, four collieries .have closed, and it. is expected that ‘more than half the mines on the Newcastle and Maitland fields will close to-morrow. So far two thousand men have been rendered idle. If the dispute is not speedily settled the total will reach six thousand. NO DEFINITE ACTION BY SEAMEN . (Rec, November 30, 10.50 p.m.) Sydney, November 30. Meetings of the Seamen’s Union in Sydney and Melbourne decided not to take definite action in the “no overtime” strike, pending a conference with the Waterside Workers’ Federation.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 57, 1 December 1926, Page 11
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