THE COAL CRISIS.
CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS. MR HUGHES' PROPOSALS. Press Association—Copy light. Melbourne, November 1(5. Air Hughes, addressing .he Coal Conference. saiJ that unless they got coal the Small Arms Facto!v vuulci close on Saturday. Ojily Mid urns were available for the? tiansp;>ltß 'I he wheat ships were also .lue. Without wheat the war could not continue. The miners' representatives repeated their demands, declaring they were locked out. The proprietors said a precedent to settlement was that all men should resume work at the same time. After a lengthy discussion, Mr Hughes proposed that the men should be recommended to resume work immediately, on condition that the Arbitration Court, or a special tribunal, should hear the case the same as if work were resumed on Monday. The conference adjourned until to-morrow to consider tlie proposal.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 94, 17 November 1916, Page 3
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135THE COAL CRISIS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 94, 17 November 1916, Page 3
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