STAY-IN TACTICS
Newcastle Coalminers Stop Below FOOD FOR SIX DAYS SYDNEY, July 29. Another stay-in strike by coalminers is reported from Newcastle where 187 miners and wheelefs employed at John Darling collicry, owned by the Broken Hill Proprietary, at Blemont are remaining below, owing to the refusal of the management to reinstate a wheelor dismissed for allegedly striking a pit pony on the head with a wooden sprag. The sit-down strikers on this occasiou are better organised. They have pufficient food for six days, most of it Itaving been taken into the mine aurreptitiously by the last shift, who also left their own crib behind when quitting. c' Meanwhile no attempt will be made to win coal in this cplliery.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 165, 30 July 1937, Page 7
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