THE COAL STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9655, 20 November 1909, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE.

CO-OPERATIVE SCHEME. TWO COLLIERIES ACQUIRED. OPERATIONS LMAY COMMENCE ON MONDAY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright, Received November^9, 10.25 a.m. SYDNEY, November 19. The agreement has been drawn up for the working uf two collieries by the miners in conjunction with owners outside the Coal Vend. A few minor points remain to be settled. Operations may commence on Monday. SUPPLIES FROM OUTSIDE SOURCES. PROVISION FOR MAIL BOATS. Received November 19, 8.35 a m. LONDON, November 18. Coals are beirg hurried from Japan and elsewhere to Australia. It is suggesteud that mail "boats leaving England should take sufficient coals to enable them by replenishing at Colombo, to run from Ceylon to Australia and back.

Owing to the strike, the British India Navigation Company has raised freights for weight measurement to Brisbane by five shilling? a ton, and the Orient company from next week will raise freight measurements to all Australian ports by fifteen shillings a ton. Received November 19, 9.5 p.m. SYDNEY, November 19.

The conference between Mr YVmjj and the strike delegates did not taKe place to day. Mr Hughes rc;e ved a letter from Mr Wade, cxpiesiiog dis• appointment that medical adv'ca :>reveited him seeing him to c'ay, but fixing a meeting for tomorrow. Mr Wade suggests that the opinion of ihi miners in different districts be tq|<en whether they are agreeable to accept his proposals. Mr Wade added: "A ballot on tne question will give a true indieiticon cf (he opiniors of the persons most vitally c.mcen ed.

A meeting of the Northern Colliery proprietors at Newcastle has accepted Mr Wade's proposal that they should consent to meet the men i» conference simultaneous with the ;e . miption of work. The proprietors

arid a proviso that in the evert cf the conference not arriving at a , settlement of the wlole of the queetioi s i ; dispute the balance be referred I'iir adjudication under the Industrial Disputes Act. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, Novembpr 19.

A telegram was received by the local branch of the Seamen's Union from the union executive in Djnedin to-day asking if the seamen engaged on interculonial vessels would come o.t on strike if called t n in sympathy with the Newcast.c miners. The officials decline to give any information, but it is understood that while some favoured a strike the maj irity

were against it. A balkt is to be taken to-morrow,