LABOUR UNREST.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20258, 29 July 1937, Page 9

LABOUR UNREST.

GENERAL STRIKE PROBABLE. THE MINING INDUSTRY. CONFERENCE IN AUSTRALIA. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. SYDNEY, July 28. The coalminers’ executive this evening decided to summon a conference of delegates from all the collieries to meet members of the Federal Council of the Miners’ Federation in Sydney on Tuesday, to determine whether work should cease. The consensus of opinion is that a general strike In the industry Is inevitable. The miners’ representatives hint that In that event they will not hesitate to extend the hold-up to other States. A conference of mineowners and miners’ delegates, which was deliberating on the demands of the coalminers for higher wages and shorter hours, broke down to-day. The owners rejected the miners’ log completely, but suggested that the men’s delegates Should submit their claims lo the New South Wales Arbitration Court. more COLLIERIES IDLE. POLICE DISPERSE MARCHERS. CONFERENCE WITH MANAGEMENT. United Tress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright SYDNEY, July 28. Three more' collieries are idle this morning in sympathy with the staydown strikers at the Burwood pit, Newcastle, who have now left the pit. Fifteen hundred miners, accompanied by women, some with babies in their arms, marched to Burwood. They were met by 50 policemen, who dispersed the demonstrators without trouble. During the night about 60 of the miners in the Burwood pit came to the surface. It was estimated that 100 had remained below. These men came out of the pit at lunch time to-day. All were suffering from extreme cold and hunger as the result of nearly 30 hours underground, where the mine’s ventilating fan intensified their discomfit.

The men left the mine on the understanding that a conference would be held with the management to discuss the points in dispute.