GAS STRIKE ENDED.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 328, 14 January 1911, Page 5

GAS STRIKE ENDED.

GREAT INCONVENIENCE. TERMS OF SETTEELMENT. By Te'-Cjia pli. Pre ?.- -Cjii.vrijrlll Received January 3 3, 9.20 p.m. Sydney, Last Night. After negotiations between the Australian Gaslight Company and the Gas Employees' Union, lasting the greater part of the day, the gas strike ended through the medium of Messrs Beebv and Carmichael. A conference of the contending parties had been arranged to discuss the trouble. Meantime the strikers resume work at 10 to-night. The strike occurred at the Sulphide Corporation works at Cockle Creek, and 400 men were idle. The causes of the trouble were the employment of non-Uniomsts, and the alleged intention of the management to use some of the men to defeat the case of the Union in the new Wages Board schedule, which it intended to apply for. Received January 14, 12 -53 a.m. Sydney, Last Night. The terms of the settlement of the gas strike are that the dismissed man is to be regarded as suspended from January 2nd. If found innocent by a committee, consisting of three representatives of each side, which meets on Wednesday, Mr Watson, the exLabour leader acting as chairman, he is to be paid wages from January 2nd. If found guilty he is to be re-instated in another position where he could not do damage similar to that alleged against him. The charge is to be definitely one of incompetence. On January Ist, early in the day, the gas supply began to show a lew pressure, and towards evening almost ceased. A number of places dependent on it for the operation of machinery closed and newspaper offices were seriously inconvenienced. The supply for domestic lighting and cooking was practically useless. A great rush occurred to shops for lamps and kerosene stoves, and hospitals and other buildings lit candles. There has been no improvement till the strikers resumed duty at 10 o'clock to-night.