AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 88, 14 April 1913, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

SETTLEMENTS EXPECTED. MEN ANXIOUS TO RESUME. A COMPULSORY CONFERENCE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12.50 p.m.); SYDNEY, this day. The Broken Hill strikers consider that the trouble' is virtually over. They will demand the setting up of a Wages Board, guaranteeing to abide by its decision, whereupon the Industrial Commissioner will be able- to compel the parties to hold a conference. The proprietors, however, appear to still regard the position as serious. The proprietary company notifies that it will cease operations on Wednesday, which will idle 1,300 additional, making a total of 6,500. - The first bullock teams conveying provisions from Cockburn reached Broken Hill, having taken six days to cover 30 miles over bad roads. A large percentage of the Southern miners anticipate the resumption of work this week.. Mr. Carmichael-s assurance that the Government will endeavour to so amend the Arbitration Act as to remove the fear of victimisation has been well received by the miners. A very brisk fortnight was experienced at Newcastle and Maitland, where 22 out of 39 mines worked full time. The others lost a. quarter to three half-days. The Lambton B and Stockton boreholds are idle owing to the dispute, while the Marklands is flooded. ■ The. threatened trouble in the milkdistributing business of Sydney, owing to discontent among the carters, will, it is believed, be averted as a result of a conference between the employers and the employees.