GOAL TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1929, Page 3

GOAL TROUBLE

GENERAL STOPPAGE,

(Australian Press Association)

Sydney, Nov. id

The State Alinister of Alines, Air AVeaver, still announces that the Government are determined to appeal for miners to work the Rothbury Colliery to-morrow. He says that the Government will not be dismayed by the threat of an industrial upheaval.

In the event of a general stoppage of. coal .supplies, there is sufficient coal on hand .to carry on.the essential;services until Christmas. • . -

ST AT E GOV ERNMENT’S. jVIETH OOS

SYDNEY, Nov. 19

. The New South; Wales Government have sent extra police to the coalfields, and instructions have been issued to prevent mass picketing, in accordance with the recent amending legislation. ■i The whole situatiop, lias taken, on a •grave aspect, and it is causing the utmost concern Throughout Australia.

CALL FOR NON-UNIONISTS,

/SYDNEY, Nov. 19

An advertisement.. appears/in a Newcastle .newspaper tonclay, over the signature. of the . N.S.AY. Alinister of Alines, Air -AVeaver, . inviting;' colliery employees to accept employment in' •fhe Rothbury Mine,- at the wages ruling' before tlie strike, less an adjustment equivalent to one shilling per ton on the output of marketable coal produced.

ROTIIBUItW AITNERS ATTITUDE.

SYDNEY, Nov.. 19

Rothbury Aimers’ Lodge unanimously decided to-day to refuse to work at the local mine when .it is thrown open by the State Government tomorrow.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

SYDNEY, Nov..-19,

The Alining Unions are now looking to the Federal Government to prevent a. general strike on the coalfields. •The Federal Cabinet is considering a proposal to summon an emergency conference composed of representatives of the Federal and thq Nei\ South AVnles State Governments, and the coal owners and the coal miners.

SUPPORT FOR THE MINERS

MELBOURNE, Nov. 19

'Hie Executive of the Australian Council of Trades Unions is calling up on all the Unions to give all possible financial and moral support to the coal miners’ Unions in any action which they “miiy be compelled to take.”