THE COAL INDUSTRY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9152, 27 July 1908, Page 5

THE COAL INDUSTRY.

NO IMMEDIATE PROSPECT OF \ A STRIKE.

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. .DUNEDIN, July 25. In the opinion of persons well informed as to matters in connection with the coal industry, there is no immediate prospect of a strike. At any rate, the conference arranged for will be held. The tension is apparently not so keen as when the Minister for Labour made the remarks pub lished yesterday.

FREEZING WORKS TO BE CLOSED.

NAPIER, July 26. Nelson Bros., Ltd., intimate that owing to the uncertainty of coal sup • plies their Tomoatia. works will be closed for stock deliveries after Thursday, 30th inst., until further notice.

STRIKES DISCUSSED BY TRADES AND LABOUR CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, July 26. Strikes engaged the attention of the Trades and Labour Conference, yesterday, when Mr Long (Auckland) moved the following motion :—"That while the Conference regrets the present industrial unrest in the Dominion, this Conference considers that those Trade Unions which have used their industrial combination to better their working conditions by other meanj than are provided under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act were more than justified and extends its hearty congratulations on the success of their efforts; that the Conference also desires to place on record its recognition of the splendid moral and financial support given to those disaffected unions by the other unionists throughout the Dominion, and hopes that the same success and support will attend the present bakers' strike "

The resolution was adopted after discussion by 18 to R.

Mr J. VV. Blackmail, Manager of the local Gasworks, informed an Age representative on Saturday morning that no further coal was to be sold from the works until the prospects of a strike are removed. Mr Blackmail has laid in s'ock an extra supply of coal—sufficient, he states, for a two months' ordinary gas consumption— he having anticipated the strike for some months.