THE NEWCASTLE COAL STRIKE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 47, 23 November 1909, Page 5

THE NEWCASTLE COAL STRIKE.

The strife- conference delegates- interviewed Mr Wade, anil informed him lliat they v<>uld .not accept his proposal. Tliey submitted counter proposals for an open conference between ihe ■colliery nmppeiur.s auc i ":ers, ; tating thai the miners would not < onsent to return to work prior io or '■uring a con'ierenee, but thai in order io facilitate an early resumption in the i vent of satisfactory terms (.cuts' ar-i-anged th'-y were willing i" i''"'om- > '.end that the requisite number of men be put on during the sittings of the conference j,o got the mines ready to restart.

The delegates subsequently reported the counter proposals to the eonl'er(nee. which endorsed them, and Mr Wade is now considering them. A ma.ss meeting of strikers at Newcastle expressed full confidence, in tlie strike congress sitting in Sydney. •Mr Bowling, in a speech, said that if the (lovernment did not soon step in and force the proprietors to give justice to the miners, something would be brought, about that would -je an example to the capitalists in this country anil in the rest of the world.