N.S.W. MINERS’ DISPUTE

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 182, 29 April 1922, Page 7

N.S.W. MINERS’ DISPUTE

TERMS OFFERED BY COALOWNERS ‘rejected BY MEN’S FEDERATION BY Telegraph—Press association. —COPYRIGHT. Sydney, April 27. The terms offered to the miners by the cbalowners also include the restoration of front and back shifts, the abolition of the cavilling system or a twelve months’ cavil, that the machines be used in'pillar work when required, that if the management desires employees to work six days each wqek that the hours of surface workers be calculated, exch sive of meal times, those of underground and contract men from the time the last man descends until the first ascends in each shift, that the distribution of coal free or below selling price to householders bo discontinued, only six recognised holidays, yearly to be observed, the hours back on Saturdays to be raised from six to eight. The conference at which this offer was made has been adjourned to allow the miners’ representatives to place it before the miners’ ledges The conference will resume at an early date, when the miners’ attitude will be disclosed.—Press Assn. / Sydney, April 28. A special meeting of the council of the Coalminers’. Federation rejectedthe’ employers’ proposals, and decided to stand behind its town claims,' which have already been placed before the tribunal. Mr. Wills, the secretary, has issued a manifesto urging the workers rot to be stampeded info a genera! steppage. The manifesto says that the all-Australian Trade Union Congress in Melbourne in June will probably formulate a definite policy for safeguarding tho interests of the porkers. He reminds the men that “a icmerkable previous industrial unfeavnl occurred during tho Nationalist regime. Another is threatening on its return to power.” —Press Assr..