DELEGATES JEERED AT
COAL STRIKE SITUATION VERY MENACING MEN REJECT PEACE TERMS
Reed. 11 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. A meeting of 5,000 Cessnock miners rejected the peace terms by an overwhelming majority, and jeered and grossly insulted their delegates to the recent conference, at which the proposed terms were arranged. The situation is very menacing. The latest development is that the Disputes Committee of the Labour Council left today for the northern fields, with the object, it is believed, of testing the feeling regarding the general strike. He expressed the view that the acceptance of the peace •terms would amount to the betrayal of the miners.
Commenting on the Labour Council’s advocacy of a general strike in the coal industry, Mr. H. Sutherland, organiser of the Mining Engine Drivers’ Association, said: ‘‘To advocate ail All-Australian strike at the present moment, when 50 per cent, of the workers in the mining industry have had 10 bitter months ‘on the grass,’ is the logic of fools and the gospel of men more concerned with advertising themselves than with the interests of the working class.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 11
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