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PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received 19, 10 p.m. Sydney, September 19. Giving evidence before the Wages Board, the president of the Miners' Association said that the position with regard to preference to unionists was serious. It only needed a hostile interpretation of the preference provision to cause a number of unionists to revert to the old system of settling disputes by drastic methods. DESPERATE STRIKERS. Received 19, 10 p.m. New York, September 19. Five thousand miners, mostly foreigners, at Bingham, Utah, struck for higher wages. They secured arms, and fired on all approaching the mines. The deputy and sheriffs overpowered and disarmed a number of the strikers. Further trouble is feared.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 106, 20 September 1912, Page 5
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115LABOR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 106, 20 September 1912, Page 5
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