BARRIER MINES.
THE OUTLOOK IS GRAVE. EMPLOYEES DETBEMINED. \ BALLOT DECIDES AGAINST A STRIKE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrights (Received October 19* 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The outlook at tho Barrier mines is grave. At a meeting yesterday of delegates from the combined unions and the Mine Managers' Association, it was decided not to go back on the promise to meet the non-political unions in conference to-morrow. The managers explained that the meeting was only to discuss the situation. The union delegates, however, refused to budge from the position the unions had taken up, namely, not to allow the managers, under thteat of a strike, to meet the non-political unions. A ballot of tho combined unions, completed late last night, resulted in 354 voting for and 430 against a strike. As stated on Saturday, it was recently announced that wages will have to be reduced when the present agreement between employers and men terminates This the unionists do not take kindly to. Owing to depreciation in silver and lead, the profits of the mines have been reduced considerably.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1908, Page 7
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