MR HUGHES AT NEWCASTLE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4505, 18 December 1909, Page 2

MR HUGHES AT NEWCASTLE.

A STORMY MEETING. SOUTHERN AND WESTERN MINERS. ADVISEDTO RETURN. Sydney. December 16, Mr Hughes conferred with the representatives of the Newcastle miners and wharf labourers. Subsequently Mr Hughes, with several of the Northern delegates to the Strike Congress returned to Sydney. Tl}c Congress is now sitting discussing their report, A Newcastle message states that the meeting was stormy. Mr Hughes argued the cause of the Northern miners would be best served by the Southern and Western men returning to work, and there is ground to believe they fell in with Mr Hughes’ views. Mr Mitchell, secretary to the Federated Colliery Enginedrivers’ Association, told an interviewer he intended to take the responsibility of advising the Southern and Western men to return to work.

From other delegates it was gathered they intended to visit the Northern and Western districts during the next few days, bift did not disclose the purpose.