Coal Miners Strike. FIGHT TO THE BITTER END.
(Per Press Association.) Sydnky, This Of y. It ' has transpired that . instead o panting the miners a conference or anj eoaoessions, the mine ownejashweptim decided t*e hewing rate should pc re duoedto 3slod all round, and seUjpf price of coal to 7s 6d per ton. Uv« also resolved no longer to recognise the Miners' Association, and meß applying for work will have to do so individually. This reduction not only effects the hewing rate but the yardage rates, and the reduced scale as 1 well as notices will be posted up in the various collieries to- * morrow. , Referring to the situation a leading owner" said the masters were tired, of dictation from outsiders, and had deoided to conduct their business in their own way on strictly commercial lines. v This decision of the owners has • caused a' great deal of surprise and biterness amongst the miners, and there is J now every, prospect of a fight to the hitter endV^^^^^^^^^
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 295, 19 June 1896, Page 3
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