N.S.W. MINES
GOVERNMENT’S IDEA.
(Australian Press Association).
SYDNEY", November 3. The possibility of the State Government endeavouring to work sqme of the New South Wales collieries in the event of a.failure of Thursday’s conference, and using free labour, if necessary, is said to have been eliminated, , unless legislative authority is first obtained. Tliis is due to the that the Lang Government in 1925, in order to keep free labour out of the mines, on the ground that inexperienced men were a source oif danger, enacted that only skilled miners with at least two years’ experience should be permitted to work at the coal faces. The Miners’ Federation would be unlikeily to respond to a call by the Government in the present crisis, hut there is the chance that, if the matter jjft is put to the test, former mine workers might come forward. There are many of these ex-miners in the State who were forced out of employment when two bf the large Cessnock mines were closed two years ago.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1929, Page 4
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170N.S.W. MINES Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1929, Page 4
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