MINERS’ STRIKE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1938, Page 7

MINERS’ STRIKE

POSITION IN AUSTRALIA LAST-MINUTE EFFORTS FOR SETTLEMENT. MEN DEMAND FEDERAL INVESTIGATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Copyright. SYDNEY, September 9. Important last-minute moves to avert a general strike among the coal-min-ers were made today. The Commonwealth Prime Minister. Mr J. A. Lyons, agreed to receive a deputation from the Miners’ Federation tomorrow. The Premier of New South Wales, Mr B. S. B, Stevens, announced that the Minister of Mines, Mr Vincent, had motored to Canberra in order to discuss certain features of the'dispute with Mr Lyons. The Federal Opposition Leader, Mr Curtin, also entered into the peace negotiations after a telephone conversation with the miners’ leaders, who declare that they would be satisfied with a Federal investigation into their grievances. HOLD4JP BEGINS MEN OUT IN ALL STATES. EXCEPT WESTERN AUSTRALIA. CRecd This Day, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The general strike in the coal industry began officially at midnight and pits employing miners belonging to the Federation of Labour in every State except Western Australia are idle. The leaders of the miners announced that •they had agreed to exempt miners in Western Australia from the general strike decision because they already enjoyed the seven-hour day. Although the Federal Premier, Mr J. A. Lyons, will receive a deputation from the Miners’ Federation today, he said that nothing had occurred to induce the Government to depart from its stand that the proper channel to settle dispute was the Arbitration Court.