AN OFFER TO SHOOT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 5

AN OFFER TO SHOOT.

* VIOLENT: SPEECH AT NEWCASTLE. THE DEAVS EEBUKE By Telestraph-rPress Assbciatlbn--Cbpjrli!lit■ .'•> :v' Sydney, January' 10. . At' a mass. meeting .'.of.Newcastle miners,strong ■ speeches/ were . ;made against ilr. "Wado's iiQw Indnstrial 'Bisputes Act,. .and the. prosecution of the union'leaders. . : • One. speaker advised that if it v.vrefo" necessary to get arins; or to I '.take Mr. Wade out and shoot .him', 'then'he ;would do'.'it,'.. ViV,'- '-

• The -Dean <of, Newcastle;'amid 'a 'stornj of ,interruption, mounted, the : platform, and, protested that',the';.speakers . did not represent '' tho : thinking ;' portion Sof the; people .' of. the district.,' ;; Such' speeches, he. said, j ustified the Government. ■ in talcing ' legal action. -. ithe' Deani"'of;. Newcastle appealed in vain; to'.bpth'.:. sides'; .for - a .Tru.ce of": Qod liiii.honour, of '.Cliristmas.' Ho 'has faced , the miners from . the; plat-form-."before,.'.and-has:- shown the'.same, fearless demeanour.] .' : •■ ■:; THE 1 COMPULSORY ; WAGES, BOARD.' ME BOWLING FENCES ' A FOTTHER ADJOTONMENT. ' (Eec. January .10, .10.40 p.m.) Sydney, January 10. . ' ' To-day the Compulsory Wages Bbnrd, set/up' ':under'; the;.ilndusbial'v', Dispute's Act .resumedyits'" sittings at Newcaitle7,..f

Mr.: Bowling . President 'of the Colliery Empioyees'r Federation, - said :'■'; that ; since. the previous . sitting ;of /the "Board; three weeks. ago,'';events 1 : c ;had,'; occurred; ; and summonses-had been- issued.-. These-de-velopments * had distractcd' aiid ; ( perhaps incensed; the minds of'tho miners, and had;prevented th'em^^-coming to;a-decision' bo represented.ibefore the,; Board. Also", lieagain raised tho : question of ;the Board's jurisdiction,.-'- p;:; v'

'•,Tie: chairmaa ruled thattie.f Boara. •had' jurisdiction.

Mr. V Bopiirig; th'eh 1 ' asked',- for toe, for, the- Miners';-'Federation^, the chairman's, ruling. -.^.TiV|'Bb^-/Bdjo^ed : ;-iiU'';JaOT^.;-2i.;

AID FROM NEW ZEALAND MI&ERS. '•"■Telegraph.—Prees• Association.)' .'-y i West port, January 10 SThe -Granity-. Coal-miners' TJnion- voted' .£l5O to ■:.th'e:';Ne , ircMUß;.<\Minera';v!Stnkq' Fund, ,in' addition-J to., the ; one ..shilling; per viweet";levied ;-:by; tfie Miner?'; Fedora-, tion.