COAL MINERS' STRIKE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19831, 20 January 1930, Page 9

COAL MINERS' STRIKE.

REOPENING ADDITIONAL MINES. N.B.W. CABINET TO CONSIDER PLANS. (UNI'. Eli PR*»i tMOCUTIOK -HT iI.r.CTRIO T«LtG*A»B~COrt»IO«T.) (Received January 2"th, 12.L'7 a.m.) SYDNKY, January ]<». It U understood here that the confer ence of partip* to the coal dispute, convoned by the Prime Minister in Melbourne, was without result. Mr Bavin is returning to .Sydney. To-morrow lie attends a special meeting of Cabinet, which will develop plans for reopening additional coal mines with volunteer labour. It is also slated that the Premier i* intent upon Rupprosding the *o called Workers' Defence CorpH.

SEEKING A SETTLEMENT

BASIS NOT YET POIND. (Received January Hbii, ~j..~> p.m.) MKLNOIRXK. January 10. Attempt* to nettle the eon 1 trouble- are Mill cout inning between the Prime Minister (Mr J. H. Seullin). the eon! owners, nnd the Premier «\ New Mouth Wale*, Mr T. H. Bavin. The parties have not yet fun ml a hnM* lor an agreement.

COMMUNISTS PARADE.

POLICE PREVENT PROCESSION. I |: (•■€ ci\ -i-d .Inrimrv Uhh. ,*i..") p.m.) e-YDNFY. January ll». AhiuiL hlty Tomiminists assembled outside (he Sydney Trades Hall to-day uith the object o| enlisting name* tot the "Woi kcrs' Defence Corps." Members of the Kuiti Kuril coalfield", pipers' ha mf gathered to hetid (lie proce>«ion through tlm streets, hut the police the procensioii and the croud went into the Trades Hull, where a resolution was carried pledging themselves to form .1 workers'' army to ;x>mbit "the bosses' (actios in cverv inhere.''

BRITIBH COAL FOR AUSTRALIA

(tteeciveJ January 19th, 5..5 p.m.) LONDON. January 18. Four cargoes of British coal, aggregating V7,oo<> tons, have been i»old to Australia during the week.

MASS PICKETING TO BE

RESUMED

PREJUDICE AGAINST POLICE. SYDNKY. January 18. I"nth 1 erred by the police action on Wednesday, the miners on the Mnilb»nd field havi! decided to te*imie mass picketing. Fearing a move by the nun, KM) police, strengthened by n tiyiiig gang and wireless patrol, stood bv at Cessnock last night during the assembling of .1 Communist meeting. A conference oi delegates from the lodges on the northern coalfields rejected proposals for 11 general strike conference, and reaffirmed tlie policy of liewping the southern, western, and unaseoeiateJ northern pits, at. work to provide levi«§ ior the idle miners.

The remarkable prejudice against the police was exhibited nt the Cessnock Hospital, when following complaints from a number of patient* that a police sergeant had been admitted for treatment, the board of inana cement decided to ask the authorities to remove the sergeant to another institution. He was later sent to Newcastle Hospital. So bitter is the feeling that the employees of the Kearsley Hliire Council refused to operate the «anitary services at places where police were quartered.

In an effort l-o settle the coal deadlock the Australian Labour Party ha* instructed the secretory to convene a conference an early as pnwdble of New South Wales Federal members of Parliament, New South Wale* State member*, and the Australian Labour Parly executive