LABOUR TROUBLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9672, 21 December 1909, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES.

NEWCASTLE STRIKE. POSITION UNCHANGED. United Press A^-iooiat'.on-lilectrio Talesrap Copyright. Received December 20, 9.30 a.m. SYDNEY, December 20. The strike position is unchanged. The Western miners are ready to start work. A mass meeting assembled at Lithgow to hear the delegates' report, but owing to the presence of the police a scene of disorder occurred. The meeting adjourned till to-da;'. The Southern Miners' Association endorsed the Strike Congress' disapproval of a general strike. The suburban train services will be restored to normal to-day.

IN DARKNESS. WESTERN MINERS DECIDE TO RESUME WORK. Received December 20, 11.55 p.m. SYDNEY, December 20. North Sydney and the adjacent suburbs are in darkness to-night, the gas supply having given out. The Western miners, at a general meeting, decided by a large majority to start work to-morrow morning. Received Decebmer 20, 11 55 p.m. SYDNEY, December 20. Scott, a member of the Strike Congress, is a descendant of the late Duke of Buccleuch He, together wlt'i his sisters and brothers, were left an estate at Selkirk, valued at £IIO,OOO. He ran away as a cabin boy and served in the Koer War. He afterwards went tJ New Zealand aud thence to Newcastle.