MINER OPPORTUNISTS
STRIKE IS WEAPON FOR STATE ELECTIONS
PITS OPEN UNDER GUARD United 2* A. —By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. It is reported that a feeling prevails at Newcastle that the decision to reopeu the unassociated pits indicates that the Miners’ Union officials intend to continue the coal dispute until the elections, in the hope that a Labour Government is returned. Three hundred and fifty miners at Kurri were refused relief on the ground that they had participated in the black ban. An important development in the coalmining dispute is the announcement by the Miners’ Council, which is sitting at Sydney, that all the unassociated pits on the northern fields are to be worked immediately. In two of these pits operations have already been resumed, and the others will be ready within a few days for a resumption. The former employees of the Aston Colliery have returned to work tinder police guard. Some of these men recently were molested by strikers and assaulted. Formerly they were members of the Miners’ Federation., but now are ostracised.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 891, 7 February 1930, Page 9
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