N.S.W. COAL TROUBLE
MINERS CON MENTION
RESUM PTION FA VO UR ED
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 3 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 25
The miners convention conference discussed the question of a genera, resumption on the northern fields. The convention favoured returning, but wants the Federal Government to intervene in some way and so save the miners faces. A proposal that the Government grant a subsidy of iimepence per ton was rejected.
PRACTICALLY ENDED.
NORTHERN PITS TO REOPEN
(Received this day at 1.5 p.m.)
SYDNEY
March 25
It is understood that the mining dispute is practically ended. The Federation is unable to maintain a continuance of the struggle. It is expected that a number of northern pits will reopen next week with Union labour The Federal Government intimated it cannot in the present financial stringency, pay the ninpen.ee par ton asked for by the miners, to make up their pay to the former amount, The Government and employers probably will co-operate in an endeavour to find work for four thousand colliery employees, whose jobs are permanently gone.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1930, Page 5
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178N.S.W. COAL TROUBLE Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1930, Page 5
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