COAL CRISIS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1929, Page 5

COAL CRISIS

EXfiIXK-Dii 1YKI!S" I)EMAXDS

AGREED TO 15V M INEKS’ COUNCIL

(Australian Press Association)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.)

SYDNEY, June 14

At the C‘onl ( oimril, the Miners’ Kerlcrntion ;it a .special meeting agreed to the demands <4 the Engine Drivers’ Association to withdraw mass pickets from the northern fields. This will remove the possibility of a general strike for' the present, providing the •Miners’ Executive can enforce their decision.

STRIK E, TEMPO!’A IDLY AVERTED

(Received this day at 9.2,5 a.m.) .SYDNEY, Jane 15.

Complete cajiitnlation hy the Ceil', tral Council of the Miners’ Federation to all demands of the Engine-Drivers’ Association has temporarily averted a general coal strike. Nevertheless the Council has to obtain a satisfactory basis ifor" getting its idle men in the north hack to work speedily before the danger is over. The Council recommended the appointment of a special committee to endeavour to suppress mass picketing. It also agreed to appoint a committee of three to investigate the charges of the engine-drivers that their members have Icon accused of treachery by the miners,l)ll the coal fields because they carried out the instructions '<tf the combined unions to remain at work meanwhile.

Reports , from Knrri Karri disclose flu* miners yesterday threatened to picket the collieries in that district. Strong forces of police from Newcastle were drafted to a secret rendezvous on the coal fields last night in anticipation of trouble during the week-end. The engine-drivers at Killingworth decided not to haul any more.

Coal advices from Brisbane state Queensland is not likely to be aflected bv the strike.