LABOUR, ETC.
Sydney, December 19. The Sooth. Clifton colliery, in the Southern District, has notified a reduction of the hewing rate to an average of 1b 9d. A meeting of the Miners' Delegates' Board at Newcastle discussed the notices of reduction issued lately, and resolved not to submit to them, and recommended that the miners demand an advance of 4d per ton, to take effect on January 14th. If this proposition is endorsed by the districts a general strike must follow. One of the largest colliery proprietors state that the action of the men will be the means of bringing the masters together again. Some understanding or agreement must be arrived at to protect them from the encroachments of the men, and to fix such a pries for coal as will return a fair profit while winning back from Southern and New Zealand collieries the trade taken away while high prices ruled here. Deo. 20. The Wallsend miners have endorsed the action of their delegates at the meeting of the Delegates Board.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2754, 22 December 1894, Page 1
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172LABOUR, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2754, 22 December 1894, Page 1
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