COAL STRIKES.
Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 16. The North-Eastern Steel Works at Middlesborough are closed owing to lack of coal, due to the trouble with the miners. Two thousand men are rendered idle. The miners' dispute is crippling the Teesdale, iron trade, and several factories in Northumberland are also dosed, refusing to pay higher prices for coal. The strike is l-esuMng "in "increases activity in the German collieries, Westpiialian mines benefiting by large orders for factory coals which are ordinarily placed in England. (Received January 17, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The southern miners are apathetic ■over the ballot, and proportionately very few are voting. All lodges in the Maitiand district rejected the Wages Board.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 13, 17 January 1910, Page 5
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116COAL STRIKES. Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 13, 17 January 1910, Page 5
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