COAL STRIKE
FEDERAL SUBSIDY OFFER. BOTH SIDES OPPOSED TO IT (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, Dec. 24. The mineowners have rejected the suggestion made by Mr Scull in that ihe Federal Government should pay to the miners the nincpence per ton reduction m wages previously proposed. '1 his ivii.s put Until by the Prime Minister as a means of averting further High Court proceedings, and enabling the immediate reopening or tm? m. '1 lie men’s representatives indicated that thy did not favour the plan, as it was the principle of reduction or wages to which the unions were uncompromisingly opposed. The owners’ chairman, Air McDonald, said that their one object was to secure a reduction in. the selling price of coal in order to stabilise the industry. Air Scull in’s proposals were only a temporary expedient, and would not produce this result; it would merely shift the burden from the miners to the public, when the state of the industry was important. Matters were therefore at a standstill pending tlm result of the High Court proceedings.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1929, Page 5
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175COAL STRIKE Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1929, Page 5
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