THE NEWCASTLE STRIKE.
POSITION STILL VERY STRAINED. PROPRIETORS FAVOUR STATE ARBITRATION. REFERENCE TO STATE ARBITRATION. Received November 18, 9.48 a.m. SYDNEY, November 18". Though the strike outlook is considered to be a little more hopeful, the position is still very strained. The chairman of the Proprietors' Association states that the association favours submitting the dispute to the State Arbitration Court, and sees no reason for a specially constituted court, as proposed by the Premier. The reports from the southern and western districts indicate that the chances of a sympathetic strike are now more remote. Coal in Sydney is quoted at £3 to £•6 5s and £4 for large, and £2 5s to £2 15s for small. Unless there 's an early settlement prices are likely to reach a famine level. The shipping trade is becoming dislocated. Fifteen large steamers are now laid up, and the crews (numbering nearly 400) have been paid off. Fears as to a partial failure of the inter-State service has led to considerable speculative buying of produce. A probable outcome of the strike will be the closing of some flour-mills and an advance in price.
The Union Company and the Hud-dart-Parker Company notify that all fares to and from Sydney, Tasmania, and New Zealand ports hove been in- \ MELBOURNE!, November 18. Owing to the laying up of twenty steam colliers and other inter-State vessels, over 800 men have been rendered idle, besides several hundred coal-kur.pers. i The Union Company has informed, the Postmaster-General that i*; is impossible to gat coal for the Moana at Brisbane. The vessel will therefore* have to go direct to Ne«' Zealand. The Department \h enquiring into the matter. ,:,-. Steamers plying pn the .lakes have been forced to use wood fa'cte' v w ', A. firm, in the city its works going'with shavings ';• •'..,-,_ ■ ; ..'- '., : ;r,-':_ •/; - : •' : ,^.s6UTH : ,-AUSTRA'tIAN -' ' \ 'INDUSTRIES AFFECTED. Received November 18, 10 a.m. ADELAIDE, November 18. Industries are being seriously j affected through lack of coal.
TASMANIAN STEAM SERVICE. A CURTAILMENT. Received November 18, 10 a.m. HOB.ART, November 17. The shipping service is being curtailed owing to scarcity of coal. VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT AND A MINE. REPORTED PURCHASE. Received November 18, 10.10 a.m. MELBOURNE, November 18. As a result of the strike, it is reported the Government has purchased the Coal Creek Company's mine. CONFERENCE OF MASTERS AND MEN. PREMIER'S PROPOSALS DISCUSSED. FAIR PROGRESS MADE. Received November 19, 1.8 a.m. SYDNEY, November 18. Mae tings of proprietors and miners, lasting in each instance several hours, discussed the Premier's proposals. Both sides decline to give information. Interviewed, the Prernier stated that as he had to see both sides again to-morrow, it was not desirable to give details of to-day's proceedings. Pair progress had been made, but the question was not settled. He hoped to make an announcement to-morrow.
INCREASED PASSENGER AND FREIGHT RATES. WELLINGTON, November 18. In consequence of the coal strike, the Union Company have decided on an all-round increase on freight and passenger rates, to'take effect immediately. Passenger rates from Sydney and Melbourne to New Zealand will be increased by 10 per cent, and freight rates on the same route by twentyfive per cent. The rates between Sydney and Melbourne and Tasmania are similarly increased. The directors have not yet determined whether an increase in the rates between New Zealand and Australia will be made. The rates on the coastal traffic in New Zealand will not be increased. It it understood that the HuddartParker Company have agreed to a similar increase.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8984, 19 November 1907, Page 5
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586THE NEWCASTLE STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8984, 19 November 1907, Page 5
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