LABOUR TROUBLES.
■ • ARBITRATION ACT AND TIMBER WORKERS. BY TELEGRAPH —PnESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. ' ' Sydney, February 17. A mass meeting of timber strikers resolved to ask the Premier to call i Parliament together to amend the Arbitration Act. PROSPECTS OF PEACE. COAL MINES WORKING. . (Rec. Feb. 17, 11.53 p.m.) .Sydney, February 17After, a conference between tho Timber Merchants'. Association and a deputation : of strikers and representatives of other unions interested, an announcement was officially jnado that there is a gqod prospect of 'an immediato settlement of the trouble. A further conference will bo held i to-morrow. • It is understood. that tho ' proposal is to Submit tho trouble-to arbitration, each side representative, with an umpire; All' tho;Nowcastlo collieries,' were working to-day,' ooriseqiiently 'the Special Court gumed. its'sittings. ' '■ :
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 124, 18 February 1908, Page 7
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