WHO PAYS THE LEVY?

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13622, 5 January 1910, Page 7

WHO PAYS THE LEVY?

In regard to tho trouble at the cooperative mines, which was overcome a few daysago, tho "Sydney Daily Telegraph's" Newcastle correspondent, writing on Christmas Day, reported:—"According to the agents for tho strikors' collieries, the difficulty over tho 25 per cent, levy, which caused a cessation of work yesterday, has been overcome. Young Walisend, it is said, will bo at work on Tuesday next, and Ebbw Main on the following day. The question that is being asked 'pertinently here is flow has the difficulty over the 25 per cent, levy boon overcome? It is well known that at Ebbw Main the miners were determined not to submit to any levy beyond that paid by other unions, and most of them, boheving that no more work would be done at the mine during tho strike, went so far as to remove their tools. It is now stated in well-informed quarters that Mr James Cant has had an interview with Mr Peter Bowling, and the determination to resume work is entirely due to what passed between them. The suggestion ia that the agents "have agreed to pay part if not the whole of the levy in order to induce the men to continue working. There is possibly little foundation for this suggestion, but the fact remains that a difficulty that yesterday appeared insurmountable has today been overcome.