THE BEEBY AWARD
COAL OWNERS' CHALLENGE
BOYCOTT OF ROTIIBURY
SYDNEY, 23rd December. A preliminary application on behalf of Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., and others challenging Judge Beeby's award was adjourned by tho Chief Justice- till Friday when evidence will be taken. The Chief Justice said lie would sit throughout tho holidays if necessary to have the matter ready for the full Bench of tho High Court at Melbourne on Oth January. Mr. Scullin to-day renewed tho offer of the Federal Government to pay miners a shilling a ton as a sharo of the prico reduction, but the problem arises who is to pay it and who receive it. Miners and owners wero consulted, but no decision was reached, and it is considered improbable that the offer will be accepted. The miners on. the Northern Coalfields this morning attended various mine properties and offered for work on tho pre-stoppago conditions. Their offers were acknowledged, but no men were engaged.
All is quiet on all tho fields, but the police camp at Bothbury has been declared "black" and subjected to an economic siege, the storekeepers at Branxton, Cessnock, and Kurri beinw warned that they must not sell anything to the police.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 9
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198THE BEEBY AWARD Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 9
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