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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2940, 28 November 1916, Page 5

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CONFERENCE FAILS TRIBUNAL APPOINTED (Rec. November 2s, 0.10 a.m.) Melbourne, November 27, • The Qoal Conference' was unable to agree, and Mr. Hughes thereupon announced the determination of the Government to appoint a tribunal, consisting of the representatives of jthe miners, owners, and the public to consider, first, the bank-to-bank 1 question, and afterwards other matters. The tribunal will Bit in Sydney as soon as possible, presumably on Wednesday. EXPORT OF NEW ZEALAND COAL MINERS DEMAND ABSOLUTE STOPPAGE. At the request of the Coal Miners'' Federation tho Minister for 'Mines has called a conference of coal mine owners to confer with representatives of the federated unions. The only point to be determined concerns tho export of NewZealand coal to Australia during the present strike in the Australian mines. Several days ago the coal miners asked the owners for an undertaking that no coal would bo shipped to Australia, and demanded a conference. . The owners readily gave undertaking that no New Zealand coal would be shipped to Australia except that rcauired for New Zealand transports. This did not satisfy the n'iners. and they have prevailed upon the Minister to call a conference to sit on Wednesday. The unions do not accept the condition that coal for the use of transports may he exported to the Commonwealth.. The leaders of the Miners' Federation isay that if coal is shinpsd.'fo the order, of the 'Admiralty it,may be relea,sed for ordinary use, and the v demand that no New Zealand coal shall be sent to Australia under any circumstances.