N.S.W. STRIKES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 83, 15 April 1913, Page 5

N.S.W. STRIKES.

A NOTE OF SYNOSCALESM.

PROVISIONING AT BROKEN HILL

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Sydney, April 14. The first bullock teams conveying provisions from Cockburn reached Broken Hill in six days. Thirty miles of bad roads had to be negotiated. SETTLEMENT LIKELY. Mr Carmichael addressed the coal strikers at Wollongong to-day, announcing that the proprietors had agreed to the Government’s proposals, and it only remained for the men to go straight back. There is some little doubt still whether work will be resumed, but the pit horses, which were turned out, are being brought back. THE COAL STRIKE SETTLED. The Southern coal strike has been settled. The men will resume as soon as the collieries are ready to receive them.

THE LATEST REPORT,

(Received 9.35 a.m.) Sydney, April 15

The only mines now working are the Broken Hill Proprietary, Junction North, Zinc, and Corporation. Owing to the shrinkage of trade, employees in many of the leading businesses have been placed on the half-time award of tire Wages Board. THE RAILWAY DISPUTE. In respect to the claims filed the Railway Traffic Association has issued a statement. The hours have been fixed at ninety-six per fortnight and the rates of pay adjusted, considerably improving the position of the men. No preference will be given to any class of unionists, but disputes can be referred to the chairman of the Board. The award will have a duration of three years. THE QUESTION OF FOODSTUFFS.

UNIONIST THREAT TO TAKE STRINGENT MEASURES. (Received 10.0 a.m.) Sydney, April 15. A resolution carried by the Broken Hill meeting declared t|hat if the Government failed to put the wheels into action within 24 hours, the unionists would take the Jaw into their own hands, and see that foodstuffs were brought into the town for the starving womens ;and children. Volunteers were called to man the and nine were forthcoming. Ministers are reticent regarding yesterday’s interview with the proprietors, but while admitting that the position is serious, they declare that there is more than 24 hours’ food supply at the railway station, only ttevpk<)l>!e cannot get at it. While the men are willing to submit the question to arbitration, the tramway company infeist that the resump tion of work must precede. The South Australian Government refused the New South AAales Government’s request to lend a train to run to Broken Hill to carry supplies should the food question become acute. South Australia has sent seventy police to Rockburn to protect railwayproperty. FERRYMEN’S AWARD. (Received 9.35 a.m.) The award as the outcome of the recent ferry strike has been issued. Besides conceding the shorter hour; and improved rates contended f° r > the. award gives preference to union ists. No boys under eighteen are tc be employed as deck hands. THE OUTCOME OF UNIONISM.

WHAT WILL THE END BE? Melbourne, April 15. Mr W. H. Irvine, in a speech at the opening of the electoral campaign, said the Broken Hill strike was interesting as a definite note to Australia of syndicalism. It was a clear and definite announcement by those guiding the strikers that unionism would control not only the Government and property but everything, and the outcome was likely to be disruption m reasonable and legitimate unionism, tending to create a condition of revolutionary thought in this sober community, the end of which no man could see.