MINING DISPUTE
NO COAL TRUCKED FROM ROTHBURY
ATTITUDE OF RAILWAYMEN AND SEAMEN
UNION OFFICIAL’S STATEMENT IN COURT
(United Press Association. —By Electric -Telegraph.—Copyright) (Rec. January 2, 10 pirn.) Sydney, January 2. Matters are still quiet on the coalfields. No coal has been trucked away from Rothbury yet, pending the result of the railwaymen’s ballot on the subject whether the Union of Railwaymen should handle non-union coal. Rothbury is picketed by strikers, who are in no way aggressive. The High Court proceedings to test the validity of Judge Beeby’s order for the resumption of work at the idle colleries at pre-stoppage rates is still In progress and considerable evidence is being taken. Among to-day’s witnesses was David Davies, general secretary of the Miners’ Federation, who deposed that railway employees would refuse to haul coal from Rothbury, the Seamen’s Union would refuse to handle it, and there was likely to be a general upheaval in Australia.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 9
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