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Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1922, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE AHHOUI/TION MINERS APPEAL FOR HELP. SYDNEY. Sept. 29. Pending the result <:f the conference , that is to be held between the owners j and minors, no further development ■. has occurred to-day in the coal dispute. • The miners declare they have been promised support by the various j unions. The miners are also requesting sup- | port from the unions overseas, should j trouble occur. j In the event of a strike. 20,000 min- , ers in Australia will he thrown idle. j The Amalgamated Engineers’ Union i decided it will not allow the Council of Action to take the supreme control j of its affairs in connection with its j industrial dispute. The union, how- | ever, states it is prepared to co-operate j with the Council. The Board of Trade has declared a new living wage for male adults of £3 )Bs. the same as it previously had , fixed fbefore the Labour Government j intervened to prevent the award com- j ipg into force). j A conference between the Disputes Committee, the Trades Hall and the j Engineers’ Union has failed to reach j any decision on tin' -18-hour week qiies- j lion. Tt adjourned till Monday. j A LIGHT SENTENCE. i BRISBANE, Sept. 20 j Slocman and Connolly were each j sentenced to three months’ imprison- j incut, without hard labour, and were J lined £7)0(1, or, in default, nine months’ | imprisonment. | COMING MINERS STRIKE.’ j (Received this dav at 8 a.m.) j SYDNEY. September 29.

A conference of southern colliery proprietors and miners on the defieieny question proved abortive, ft is now certain the moil will cease work at the* expiry of the fourteen days notice already tendered.

MELBOURNE. Sept. 30. In the House of Representatives Mr Hughes in a statement on the Near East said the position was changing every moment, it now pointed towards peace, not towards war. He suggested Uarliamcnt should not he prorogued, if war were probable.