THE COAL DISPUTE
SYDNEY, 4th December
Meetings of miners on the Northern coalfileds, in order to discuss the terms of settlement of the coal dispute, will be held during the -week-end. Their delegates to the recent conference are strongly urging acceptance of tho
terms, but there is a considerable hostility in some quarters, and an attempt will be made by tho militants to have the toTms rejected. There was sigfinificant development to-day at Lithgow, in tlie western district, where miners at a mass meeting unanimously rejected the terms, and also pledged themselves to fight any lund of wage reduction to the bitter end. Tho position therefore is still m tho balance.
The agreement reached provides for a reduction of all contract wages by 12 B per cent., also Gd a ton from the wages of day labour employees at the collieries concerned. Tho owners on their part agreed to submit figures to :i committee of employees showing that the reduction mentioned represent 9d a ton on an average over the whole of the collieries concerned. The miners undertook not to restrict the outwit of coal. l
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 11
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186THE COAL DISPUTE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 11
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