MORE MINERS GO OUT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 239, 15 November 1909, Page 2

MORE MINERS GO OUT.

THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN COAL STRIK& THE EFFECTS IFvERELY FELT.

By Cable.-Press AMOciation.-OopyrigM Sydney, November 13. A congress! of the delegates of the three mining districts is toeing held to-j day to consider the northern proprietors decision. The prospects of the congress falling in with the suggestion to resume work preparatory to the conference are considered very unlikely. Mount Kcira miners laid down their tools last night, and all the southern miners are now out. An aggregate meeting of tlhe westevi. miners decided to cease work immediately. It is expected that all tin ~. ■> will he idle to-day. The coke works at Bulli and ISellamlu paid off their men and are r •■"• down. The outlook is considered anything but ihopeful, and fear.* u. a g '•>•'«' strike are increasing. Tlhe strike leaders state that lie object! of a general striken w to rouse p" lie opinion to coerce the mine ownerAddressing Hetton Lodge, one of tu delegates announced that the m i«.-rs-»cii; not going to allow anyone to try and work the mines. . . Mr Bowling expressed the opinion that the Waterside Workers' and oilier unions | would eonie out if culled upon. iliv spirit of unification anion!,' unions was | never .so strong as to-day. KoUun

i would be done to lmri Uhc public Mi could be. avoided, but it was a fight ■ supremacy and the unions must •■ .e nil tlie power thev enuttl get. Mr. Bo.vling mentioned that lie hud offers from all parts of Australia and New Zealand. They, amongst other matters, would lie considered nt to-day's conference. In Mr. Bowling's scheme for working a colllerv or collieries' Ivy the Miners' Federation, the pits mentioned are Young. Wallscnd, and Ebbwvalc. Nego- ' tiations arc in progress, and it is imderhtood that steps towards completing tlie a«reeinent are well advanced. ! "The effects of Che strike are being So--1 wwlv felt at Newcastle. The export

vcrclv felt at Newcastle, im- ™pui-» of coal for the week just ended was 1800 tons, compared with 10,800 for the previous week, and 80,000 for the corresponding week of last year. The general trade of the town is at a standstill. Advices .received in Sydney state that a" shipment of coal has already left Hongkong for Australia, and quotations have been received from Natal and Japan for cargoes to be delivered within a month. Reports from other Slates indicate that ihe effects of hlie strike are becoming serious. In Melbourne there is a tendency to reduce the hands employed in the large manufacturing and commercial establishments. All the existing con I supply contracts with Melbourne terminated yesterday, the contractors taking advantage of the strike clauses in the agreements. The Australian Paper .Mills Proprietary has closed down its works at .Melbonnie ami (ieelong owing to the lack of coal.

Asked in the Hou='e whether lie hnd not the power under the law of Eminent, Domain to work the mines as Mr. Roosevelt intended to do at one time in Ameriea, Mr. Deakin, Federal Premier, stated tint Eminent Domain did not exist to the same extent in Australia as in America. The Commonwealth Government, he added, had not the control over it.s lands that the American Government had.

LABOR DELEGATES IN CONFERENCE. NO INFORMATION. AVAILABLE. Received Nov. 14, .')..") p.m. Sydney, Last Night, A lengthy conference of labor delegates took place lust night. Not the •slightest idea as to the result is obtainable. . ABSENCE OF ENGLISH COMMENT. Received November 14, 5.5 p.m. London, November 13, There is a general absence of comment on the Australian strike, because the causes are unknown, NATAL "TURNS DOWN" COAL ORDERS. Received November 14, 5.5 p.m. London, November 13. Numerous Australian ordors and Inquiries for coal have been received by the Natal colliers. All orders, lioncier, have been declined owing to shortage of la hi>r an.l i. i ■ 1n.,, 1,1 ~i imiic. DISCONCERTING DEVELOPMENT. STRIKE PROBABLY CONFINED TO NEW SOUTH WALES. Received November 15. 12.45 a,m. Sydney, November Hi All hough no official information is obtainable, there is reason to believe that some disconcerting development oc cuiicd at yesterday's conference, rcn.dnring it necessary to again confer with the executives of tho various unions represented. After this is done the conference will ,be resumed to-morrow afternoon.

It is rumored that the attitude of the Seamen's Union may mean that the strike, -will not extend beyond this State. Peter Bowling (secretary of the. Miners' Union) returned to Newcastle, presumably to confer with the miners' executive,.

EFFECT ON U.S.S. CO. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. I An advance in intercolonial fares of ill per cent., nud iu freights of 2.1 per cent., bring the charges into line witib those ruling in the inter-State services of Hie Commonwealth, in contemplated 'by the Union Company as the result of the mining strike in Australia, but the date from wliich the scale shall come into operation has not been fixed yet, as further developments may make the change unnecessary. Should the strike last) long, however, the difficulty and increased cost of getting conl, and the general disorganisation of trade, will probably make the .imposition of the Increased charges unavoidable. The mines' on the West Const nrc doing all they can to supply the sudden demand made upon them, and quantities of coal from Westport arc being stored at Wellington, where the Melbourne-Bluff and ('(Kile Strait-Sydney steamers will coal. It is not thought that the. intercolonial services will have to be reduced, but a reduction has already 'been made in the Tnsmaninn services by permission of the Postmastcr-flencral. The Loongan.i, running ibctwee.n and Melbourne, w making fewer trips', and the Ilobiirt-Sydney trade carried on hitherto conjointly by Hie Tluddnrt-T'nrkcr J'iiiprictary and the Union Company, is being maintained by one of the companies.