N.S.W. COAL TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1930, Page 5

N.S.W. COAL TROUBLE

IMPORTANT CHANGE

(Australian Press Association)

SYDNEY, February 6

'An important development in the coal situation is an announcement that has been made by the Miners’ Council, who are sitting at Sydney. This is to the effect that all of the unassociated pits on the Northern fields will be worked immediately. 1 Two such pits have already resumed.

Other unassociated pits will be ready within a few days. The former employees of the Aston Fields Colliery have returned to work, under a police guard. Jt will be recalled that some of these men were molested by strikers, stripped and assaulted. They are iovmer members of the Miners’ Federation,' but are now ostracised. s

MINERS’ ATTITUDE

SYDNEY, Feb. 7

It is reported that a feeling prevails at Newcastle that the decision to reopen unassociaed pits indicates that the Miners’ Union officials attend to continue the coal dispute until the State elections in the hope that a Labour Government will be returned. Three hundred and fifty miners at Kurrikurri were refused relief on tin grounds that they participated in a black ban.

The Australian Workers’ Union Convention, by twelve votes to eleven, rejected a motion in favour of the abolition of State Parliaments.