The Newcastle Strike.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4499, 4 December 1909, Page 2

The Newcastle Strike.

SITUATION CRITICAL. Sydney. December 3. Mr Hughes, the moutbpiece of the strikers, states that the situation is critical, everything depends on the next 24 hours, whether the trouble will bo settled or a great inrlustriil cataclysm will follow. The Labour Paity caucus formulated proposals for settlement of the strike, the nature of the proposals is secret, and will be submitted to tho Strike Congress today Mr Wade’s int rviews with Learm u'.h anl Hughe j were fruitless, and action will bo taken to day to aopoint a board under the Indus rial Disputes’ Act to deal with tho trouble, Sydney, Decombor 3. Although the S’rike Congress decided that tho Palermo’s coal should bo handled ny coal lumpers, tho Union is not altoge'.lier satisfied, h doing that importation of coal is a blow at the Southern mines, which have a contract to supply the Peninsular ‘ steamers. Mkluiukxe, December 2. Three thousand persons are idle in Melbourne as a result of tho strike and as many m >ro are wo-king under tho full number of hours.