N.S.W. COAL DISPUTE
Increase in Wages Granted (Received 13, 8.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 12. The dispute in the coalmining industry jn New South Wales was settled at a eonference of the partias presided ove_r by Mr Justice Cantor. Great relief will be felt in business circles. The settlement means that the contract miners will receive an immediate increase of 10 per cent in wages and day wages employees will receive a 5 per cent increase. In other words the wage coneessions represent in the aggregate a slight increase on the wage cuts imposed seven *years ago. The miners' delegat&s are jubilant ofi the outcome of the eonference nnd ; declare that the coneessions are the most substantial received for many years. , , Ihe .terms of the settlement wiil be. 'placed before the miners' lodges in the various districts for ratification.The agreemcnt will operate from next Monday. The terms of the agree5 ment will be reviewed by a State eonference of miners' delegates to-day," . and it ■ Is cousidered lilcely that their acceptance will be recommended to mass meetings of miners early nest week. Uniou leaders stated that the qost to owners of the coneessions gained approxiniated £250,000 a year.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 6
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