The Miners Strike and its Effect

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 34, 30 August 1888, Page 2

The Miners Strike and its Effect

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright Lpeb united pjress association.! Melboubne, August 28. The building trade is. seriously affected by the miners' strike. Bricks have advanced six shillings per thousand, and many contractors will be ruined if compelled tp,qomplete their engagements at the, increased prices. Every day vessels, are. being laid up and the crews paid off. The strike is also effecting the foundries, the proprietors of which are discharging many hands. Queensland coal is selling at an advance of twenty-nine shillings per ton. Adelaide, August 28. .The majority of Trades-Unions are against the action taken by the Newcastle miners, and the question of forwarding funds to their assistance has not yet been settled. .. Newcastle, August 29. The miners on strike are making efforts to induce the southern men also to go out. A number of those' who went out on strike here have accepted work in the coal mines in Tasihania and Queensland. Syimrr. Thi&'Pay. The miners now out oh strike have issued a manifesto to their fellowworkmen and the general public of Australia, appealing for aid in their endeavours to obtain their demands from their masters. . ••''-'■• Auckland, Auganjt 28. Orders are being freely received by the local coal companies in consequence of *,he Newcastle strike. The Kaino Coal Company have orders for 3000 tons for the Union Company's steamers, and 1000 tons for the s.si Balmoral Castle. The Auofcland Gas Company, who have a contract for lighting the city, have made a contract by which supplies of coal wfll be deceived by them from Greymoirtji every fortnight. '■