STRIKE SENTENCES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 5

STRIKE SENTENCES.

UNPAID FINES,

TWO MORE MINEES'GO.TO GOAL. By TeleEranh—Press Assoclation-Oopyrlght

(Reg. February 5, 1.15 a.m.) ■ . Sydney, February 4. •; On December 30, thirteen members: of the delegate board of the Miners' Federation were convicted under the old Industrial '• Disputes Act 'of having, instigated a strike, and-were-eaoli fined''.£loo, in default two'months' imprisonment (the maximum under the old Act). They were allowed a month"" withia""'wbicE "to a ~pay. the fine. .'■•'-':

Two of them, Kees and Bolort Young, have now been lodged in gaol in of payment./ ■-'-.. •■'- .-:

/[There were "two- accused named Bees, Daniel.Rees,,and Benjamin Eees. -The cablegram does not make it clear whether the other eleven have paid the fine.],.

The conspiracy charges which were laid in the' first instance against Peter Bowling and others—since which time Bowling and .three, other loaders have been 1 sen-' tenced to twelve months' imprisonment under the new Industrial Disputes' have been postponed till Monday owing to the illness, of Brennan; one of .the accused;' '.■'• '■":■ ';'■':•:

DYNAMITE EXIUJOSION. ' ; .'''..; RAILWAY WRECKED.:;:.■:.; •;., (KeC- February;!, 1W p ; m;) ■;>:';.;. ■■•.':■ ,-'J ■ . ; Sydney, February : i. :; A culvert under the Aberdare railway has been blown up .by dynamite.',;•■.'.■'■■'.;•.' i ' The line is :the property: of the Aberdare Collieries Company. '.'■', The .culvert was completely-wrecked,' and tw6..pair of, rails'were blown out. ,:• /.-. ( . It is. supposed, that the 'motivo ;Tvas to stop the carriage of coal from Bellbird Colliery, ;,near Cessnock,. which, is . being worked .with free .labour.;/:./, : ; : ..;■ -IffiSDMPTIbN\TBOT)ENCt.K;--; ; ■"/ ~'■■:. -VSydntiy, February.-4." ■ "■ The Bulli' miners (southern district) at a.meeting instructed; thei-executive* of the Colliery Employees' Association to call an aggregate meeting to consider the ques l tion of resuming work; './

: .The ■>. shiftuieii : at, the .Hetton Colliery, Newcastle j; .have expressed; their willuigneE3. to return to wort. ' .. ~.;:.•