THE COAL STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 26, 31 January 1910, Page 5

THE COAL STRIKE.

LABOUR PROTESTS. FEELING AT KURKI KUKRI. LECTURER LEFT WITH AN AUDIENCE OF ONE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright,) (Received 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Various labour organisations throughout the Commonwealth have condemned the imprisonment of the strike leaders. Mr. Lonsdale, a member of the Assembly, was about to deliver a lecture at Kurri Kurri in aid of a local institution, when one of the audience called attention to the fact that Mr. Lonsdale supported the Government whch had done all it could to crush them, and sent their leaders to gaol. The audience quickly walked out, leaving the chairman and the lecturer alone in the building. EFFORTS AT SETTLEMENT. SYDNEY, January 30. The Newcastle Miners' Delegate Board has adopted a recommendation by the advisory committee, urging the board to ask the colliery owners to meet it, with a view to the settlement of the strike. ENGLISH VIEW OF THE SENTENCES. LONDON, January 29. The "Pall Mall Gazette" says the sentences on the strike leaders in New South Wales is a signal illustration of a strictly democratic Government rising to the height of its responsibilities, and doing its duty to the community without fear or favour. There is no country, says the "Pall Mall Gazette," where the artisan is more favoured by law than in the Australian Commonwealth, and it is well that Labour leaders in this labour paradise should be taught that the country must come before party, and the comfort of the many before the selfish demands of a single class. 1 GREYMOUTH MINERS RESENT. "A BRUTAL ACTION." GREYMOUTH, this day. A demonstration and mass meeting was held in Greymouth on Saturday evening as a protest against the New South Wales legislation and the imprisonment of Peter Bowling and his comrades. The State mine hand headed a procession through the town, and speeches were delivered from the band rotunda. The following resolution was declared carried unanimously:—"That we, the workers of Grey and district, enter an emphatic protest against the brutal action of the Wade Government in making a law which practically annihilates the liberty of free speech and the industrial organisation of the working class; and, further, if occasion arises, we will advocate a general strike throughout 'Australasia, making the injury to one an injury to all." A collection was taken up on behalf of the strikers, women going from shop to shop with money-boxes.