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MINERS' PRINCIPLE. Northern Dispute Is Harvest To South And West. settlement endangered. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The prospccts for settlement of the northern coal dispute vanished once again when it was ascertained last night that the miners had rejected the proposal from the Canberra conference for a compromise on the wage reduction plan.
It appears that the northern miners' delegates were agreeable, but were outvoted by the southern and western delegates.
411 the southern and western miners have been fully employed during the currency of the northern strike, and although they were paying heavy levies to the northern strikers, they enjoyed a boom period which they will not readily forego, especially as it would involve a slight wage reduction and possibly diminish the employment of a number of their members.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 282, 28 November 1929, Page 7
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