LABOR CRISIS.
TWO THOUSAND COAL MINERS AFFECTED. PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 1 8 a.m., Srpt. 10, Sydney, Sept. 9. There ie every proepeet of a general lookout in Maitland district, the miners failing in negotiations for the abolition of the working of dog watch at the pits on Sunday nights. The Kuri Kuri mioers gave a fortnight’s notice, which terminates at midnight to-night. This notice directly affects two hundred and seventy-five men, but reports from Newcastle to-night state that the owners are determined if the men refuse to work dog watch that they will not be allowed to enter the pits tc-morrow morning. This mean the idling of about two thousand men.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1856, 10 September 1906, Page 2
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112LABOR CRISIS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1856, 10 September 1906, Page 2
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