LABOUR QUESTIONS.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. London, December 29. The Clyde and Belfast employers have issued an ultimatum stating that unless Lord James , award is accepted within a week work will be resumed without any reference to the Trades Unions, and with the help of three thousand free men. Sydney, December 80. The meeting of municipal representatives and colliery proprietors in Newcastle to arrange a plan for improving tho condition of the coal trade proved abortive. Two leading colleries declined to take part in it, expressing the opinion that nothing was more certain than that the foreign trade could have been retained by the low prices of coal during the past years. Thay could see no prospect of a return to even 9a per ton.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9301, 31 December 1895, Page 5
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