The Coal Strike

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 6, 1 December 1916, Page 2

The Coal Strike

CONFERENCE ON SATURDAY. Per Press Association. Christchurch, December 1. The Secretary of the Blackball Company states that the representatives of the Miners’ Federation will meet at Blackball, on Sunday to discuss tho position, and the men will remain out in the meant!,me. TERMS OF SETTLEMENT. Press Association—Copyright, Austra. j ban and V.Z. Cable Association. Received 1.10 pan.) Sydney, December 3. Tho strike settlement includes the, alioliti ;ii of the front and h.'ck sliilt system.

COMMONWEALTH GABLES. COMPULSORY CONFERENCE. ; ADVANCED SHEARING RATES. (Received 1.15 p.m.) ; Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, December 1. j A compulsory conference between the representatives ot the Australian Workers 1 nion and the Pastoralists Association of the. Commonwealth, resulted in the signing of an agreement which givAs substantial increases under all headings. The agreement oper-' ates to-day, and continues in force until a new award is made. The rates of shearing were Used at 2Ss per hundred ; the wages of slid hands w.ero advanced to L' '2 l »s, to youths £2 os, and those' to otlier hands and the erntehitm rate; wen- proportionately