STAY-BELOW STRIKE
Newcastle Miners Refuse to Leave Pit " SYDNEY, July 27. The unrest in the coal industry wa# exemplified - to-day when a stay-in strike began at the Broken Hill Proprietary's Burwood colliery'near Newcastle. Two hundred underground workers eomplaining of the poor quality of the pit ponies announced their intention to remain below until thp dispute wis ! spttled. Their wives and friends : atteiapted to send down food but the j company's manager warned them to ; keep away while the miners' Tepresenj tative was not allowed to communicate by telephone with the men. The women attempted to niake a demonstration but the poiice dispersed them. « The conference of the miners' delegates with the representatives of the northern, southern and western mineowners in regard to the new log opened to day but no decision was xOached.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 163, 28 July 1937, Page 7
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