THE MINING INDUSTRY.
ANOTHER STAY-DOWN STRIKE. 187 MEN REMAIN BELOW. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel* Copyright. SYDNEY, July 29. Another stay-down strike by coalminers is reported from Newcastle, 187 miners and wheelers employed in the ” John Darling ” colliery, owned by Broken Hill Proprietary,' at Belmont, remaining below. Their action followed tlie refusal of tlie management to reins!ate a wheeler dismissed for striking a pit pony on the head with a wooden sprag.
The strikers on this occasion are heller organised and have sufficient food for six days. The greater part of the food was taken into the mine surreptitiously by the last shift, the members of which also left their own lunch behind when finishing ’their In the meantime no attempt will be made to win coal from this colliery. CONFERENCE TO BE HELD. HEARING BEFORE COMMISSION. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. SYDNEY, July 29. The Industrial Commission, at a compulsory conference between the parties on Monday, will deal with the dispute In Hie coal industry in New South Wales.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 7
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169THE MINING INDUSTRY. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 7
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