AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 21 March 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

y DICTATION BY BOYS. JUDGE'S TINAL COMMEJTZ , . (Received 9.59 a.m.) STDNFA", this day. j The conference of the coastal com- : Jms and the wharf labourers continued |~ky. Prospect: oi a settlement are | Tended hopefully. j The =outh Bulli mining trouble has j settled. When the Sew- , Coal Court reassembled, the Presitot announced that the Court could no wer put up witn the present posiZ£ It had waited for three days. The Palow Main and Burwood pits i sill resume without result. The Court commented strongly on the j .ttitnde of the Miners' Federation. Ether it could not or would not enforca I 1 jie discipline of its members. It seemed ; to be an organisation which was left; at the mercy of its least responsible B eibers. The way in which the Federation tad acted at the biuding of boy | ennloyecs resembled a general who, in : $e*mkdle of a battle, had to go to a ■Rummer boy and ask him not to upset Ji3 plans. The flouting of the Court ■gas an affront to its self-respect which it could not stand any longer. The Jnsige said he closed the Court, but he •(Tonld not send in his resignation immediately in order to give the parties j time to consider their position. lie dosing of the Court is regrettea by both, sides, and it is feared may lead to a renewal of complications ironMe. ;