THE COAL STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9656, 22 November 1909, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE.

DELEGATES INTERVIEW MR WADE. A COUNTER PROPOSAL. United Press Association-By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received November 21, 5.5 p.m. SYDNEY, November 21. The strike conference delegates interviewed Mr Wade and informed him that they could not accept his proposal. They submitted counter proposals for an open conference between the colliery proprietors and miners, stating that the miners could not consent to return to work prior to or during the conference, but in order to facilitite an early resumption in the event of satisfactory terms being arranged they were willing to recommend that the requisite number of men be put on during the sitting of the conference in order to get the mines ready to re-start. The deicratei subsequently reported the counter pioposal to the conference which endorsed it. Mr Wade is now considering the counter proposal. MEETING OF UNIONISTS. A STRIKE FAVOURED. Received November 21, 5.5 p.m. SYDNEY, November 21. A mass meeting of Newcastle unionists expressed full confidence in the strike conference sitting at Sydney. Mr Bowling, in a speech, said that if trie Government did not soon step in and force the proprietors to give justice to the miners something would be brought about that would be an example to the capitalists of this country and the rest of the world. A representative of the Seamen's Union declared that his .union was prepared to order a cessation of work whenever such a course would be in the interests of the strikers. Representatives of other unions spoke in supportjof a strike.