STAY-IN STRIKE AT NEWCASTLE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 11

STAY-IN STRIKE AT NEWCASTLE

Miners Remain Below Ground FOOD SUPPLY STORED SURREPTITIOUSLY By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received July 29, 8.5 p.m.) Sydney, July 29. Another stay-in strike by coal-miners is reported from Newcastle, where 187 miners and wheelers employed at the “John Darling” colliery owned by the Broken Hill Proprietary at Belmont are remaining below because of refusal by the management to reinstate a wheeler dismissed for allegedly striking a pit pony on the head with a wooden sprag. The sit-down strikers on this occasion are better organised. They have sufficient food for six days, most of it having been taken into the mine surreptitiously by the last shift, who also left their own crib behind when quitting. Meanwhile no attempt will be made to win coal from this colliery. A message from Sydney published yesterday stated that the coal miners’ executive had decided to summon on Tuesday a conference of delegates from all collieries to meet the members of the fedral council of the Miners’ Federation in Sydney and determine whether work should cease. The consensus of opinion was that a general strike was Inevitable. 'Phe miners’ representatives hinted that in that event they would not hesitate to extend the hold-up to other States and completely paralyse industry.