COLLIERY DISPUTE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 747, 21 February 1910, Page 5

COLLIERY DISPUTE.

RESUMPTION OF WORK. OWNERS' TERMS. '■ '<'/■■■

By Telegraph-Press Aasociation-Oopyrlirht. Sydney, Tobruary 19. In a : statement handed to the press, the"Northern- ininb owners shaw that tlioy iiavo no, inbiitionv of -accppiingran lequivocal resumption '; of": work. .The statement l makes . clear that' the' owners' terms- for granting a conference are:-- ' (1) When tho Wages Board meets again the miners must submit their' grievances. ■ (2) The pits must be ready /to .recjiive the .miners ; on.'-Wednesday/ morning, i and the miners be ready to go to work at the nsual time and .under the old conditions.

■ (3) When these conditions . are. complied .with, the Wages .Board, will then proceed with its work. . , ' 1

-The South Clifton is the.only Southern mine idle, . work being blocked by "an old-standing local'difficulty. ' ■

A DIVERSION OP' CAPITAL TO VICTORIA.

. Sydney, February 19.. , A ,<jompany representing; some. leading 'shipping colliery interests has been formed- in .Sydney to ' work a- coal-mine on the Powlett River, Victoria. ' Tho company lias'secured 1400 acres near -'the' Victorian State mine,. and expects to start at an early date. . .-.- *,'. • ■'• V Tho.reason assigned for the formation of . the company is that Victorian legi& lation is more favourable to mining oj. .erations. No bar is offered to,'the employment of free labour; therefore-tbiirs is tless risk'of shipping and other indu&: tries-being' blocked in the event of strikes in other centres. , <'■