AUSTRALIAN COAL TROUBLE
FADING HOPES OF SETTLEMENT PROPOSALS REPUDIATED Sydney, August 3. The prospect of a settlement of the coal deadlock by a compromise, as anticipated this week-end was dissipated by an official statement of mining industry officials, who repudiate the proposals to this end made earlier in the week by Mr. Sutherland, the enginedrivers’ organiser. They contend that it had been already agreed by the mine unions and engine-drivers that they should not tolerate any wage reduction whatever, while the owners have already made it plain that the only basis of compromise would be a slight wage reduction. The miners’ officials also made the dramatic discovery that among Mr. Sutherland’s proposals was an agreement with the mine-owners to refrain from interfering with the enginedrivers’ wages for three years, which the miners’ officials interpet as an attempt to save their own skins at the expense of the coal miners.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 265, 5 August 1929, Page 3
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149AUSTRALIAN COAL TROUBLE Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 265, 5 August 1929, Page 3
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