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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1928, Page 2

| COAL MIXERS ORGANISING. SYDNEY, .May 4. j Consequent on Brown’s statement i<abled yesterday) eoal miners are organisin'; agrgogate meetings which will be called throughout the coalfields,;:and the policy laid down by the All-Austra-lian Trades Cuion Conference last week for observance by miners will be discussed. A conference of miners’ officials is being bold at Newcastle on Tusedav to receive the decisions of the aggregate meetings. T. Home (President of the Northern Miners' Federation) said when the owners made their long-premeditated [attack on rates and conditions ol the I coal industry, the light would not he one-sided. Home added that the system of private ownership of the coalmines was chaotic, and if the miners had to return to the 1914 rates as sug gested by Jirown, miners wages would be reduced by one half, which would be a mere dole. SALE OF FEDERAL SHIPS. CANBERRA, M.ay 4. Mr Senllin’s censure motion in the House of Representatives condemning the Bruce Government for selling the Commonwealth ships, was defeated by .’)() to 21. Mr Earl Page (Treasurer) declared the seamen had ruined the opportunities to make the vessels successful. There were twenty-seven waterside disputes in 1927. involving 27,(320 men. representing a loss of 1 ill .3SO working days, and £123,900 in wages.

Men’s and hoys pyjama suits, winter weight material trnm Horror kses pyjama cloth. Prices, men's 12s 6<l to 1-1 s 6d ; hoys and youth fis 6d to 9s Ud at McKays. —Advt.