A GRAVE OUTLOOK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3022, 20 October 1908, Page 5

A GRAVE OUTLOOK.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.

BARRIER MINES TROUBLE EMPLOYERS DETERMINED. A STRIKE NOT FAVOURED. Received October 19, 10.15 a.m. SYDNEY, October 19.. The outlook at the Barrier mines is grave. At a meeting yesterday of delegates from the combine unions and the Mine Manageis' Association, it was decided not to go baek on the promise to meet the non-political unions in conference to-morrow. ' The managers explained that the meeting was only to discuss the situation. The union delegates, however, refused to budge from the position the unions had taken.up, namely, not to allow the managers, under threat of a strike, to meet the non-political unions. A ballot of the combined unions, completed late last night, resulted in 354 voting for and 430 against a sti ike. CRISIS AVERTED. . Received October 20, 12.20 a.m. SYDNEY, October 19. The Barrier crisis has been averted.' The,non-politic£l union, after receiving a deputation of tradespeople, who uiged the serious distress that was likely to follow a strike, decided to abandon the conference with the mine managers. This removes the cause for the combined union strike, which has been declared off.