STILL WRANGLING
NORTHERN COAL MINERS
NO SIGN OF SETTLEMENT
UPHEAVAL MAY OCCUR
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 10th December, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.
The coal miners are still wrangling over the peace terms, alternately praising and condemning their leaders, one section of miners demanding a secret ballot upon the question of the acceptance of the terms and another threatening violence if the Government attempts to open the mines with free labour.
Meanwhile settlement seems as far off as ever, while at any moment the gravest upheaval may occur. The Premier, Mr. T. It. Bavin, will take definite action to force the miners' hands within a few days. The latest developments in tho coal trouble summarised are that the Greta, Eothbury, and Paxton miners' lodges voted against tl'j resumption proposal. The men's leaders at the aggregate meeting threatened violence if the Government attempted to open the Rothbury pit. Messrs. Davies and Hoare, who made the&agreement rejected by the men, are now urging meetings to reject it.
The Trades Hall officials are against a general strike owing to lack of funds. Speaking at an aggregate meeting at Shakespeare, the Cessnock miners' representative said: "Wo will have thirteen thousand men at Eothbury from other districts to stop tho men working."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 11
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