COAL STRIKE
DEADLOCK CONTINUES COMPROMISE PROPOSALS REPUDIATED BY MINERS (United Proas Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian Praia AncmTaM— J (Received 3rd August, 9.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The prospect of a settlement of the coal deadlock by compromise as was anticipated this week-end, lias been dissipated by an official statement'by mining industry officials who repudiate the proposals to this end made earlier in the week by Mr Sutherland, engine-drivers’ organiser. They contend that it has already been agreed bv the mine unions and engine-drivers that they cannot tolerate any wage reduction whatever, while the owners have already made it plain, that the only basis of compromise would be a slight wage- reduction. Miners’ officials also made a dramatic discovery that among Mr Sutherland’s proposals was an agreement with the. mine owners, to' refrain from interfering With the engine-drivers’ wages for a period of three years, which the miners’, officials interpret as an attempt to save their own. skins ,at, the expense of the coal miners/ & p Vf jU ? ;K
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 3 August 1929, Page 7
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168COAL STRIKE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 3 August 1929, Page 7
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