IDLE COAL PITS
BOYCOTT DIRECTED AT MAGISTRATE By telegbaph.-pbess Association, —copyright. (Rec. April 6, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney. April 6. The idleness at coal pits in the Newcastle and Maitland districts is largely due to the resentment of the miners towards Major Crane, the district Magistrate. Whenever he sits in these districts, the employees throw the pits idle as a protest against his allegedly imposing unnecessarily harsh sentences on any of them who appear before him. The coa* owners regard these constant irritating interruptions as merely another form of application of the darg. The miners threaten to boycott local races if Major Crane attends them.— Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 171, 7 April 1923, Page 7
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106IDLE COAL PITS Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 171, 7 April 1923, Page 7
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