AT AN END

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 5

AT AN END

SYDNEY GAS STRIKE SETTLED TERMS NOT REVEALED WORK COMMENCES TO-DAY. By Telegraph. -Pres* Association.— Copyritht. SYDNEY, 7th March. The strike has ended. A settlement was reached by the conference. The terms are not revealed. Work will be resumed at all the gasworks at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. SATISFACTION EXPRESSED. MEETING OF STRIKERS THIS MORNING. EVERY MAN GETS HIS OLD ,PLACE. (Received March 8, 8.5 a.m.) j SYDNEY, This Day. After the conference Mr. M'Gowen announced that an agreement had been reached. By mutual consent the men ! will go back to work on Saturday afternoon. He declined to disclose the terms. From other sources it is gathered that a meeting of strikers will be held this morning to ratify the provisional agreement, which, there is reason to believe, will prove acceptable to them. At* a meeting of ga«workers yesterday evening satisfaction was expressed at the favourable turn of events. (Received Marcli 8, 9.35 a.m.) | w SYDNEY, This Day. The secretary of the Gasmen's Union stated that the only thing he could disclose about the conference was that the agreement provided that every man went back to his old place. PARTIAL SERVICE LAST NIGHT. SYDNEY, 7th March. A partial gas service was available \h the city from 5 to 10 o'clock tonight. If the strike is unsettled to-morrow there is some probability that the employees of the catering and butchering firms who contracted to supply meals to the free labourers will refuse to'do any work connected with the supplying oi these meftls. COLLEGE YOUTHS ASSAILED. RESCUED BY"cONSTABLES. SYDNEY, 7th March. A dozen Technical College youths, who volunteered to assist lh making gas, marched four deep to Kent-street gasworks, where 800 strikers were awaiting to receive the wages due tp them. At first the youths wore merely booted, but when they turned down Gaslane they were assailed with streams of beer from an adjacent hotel. ! The boys found: that they had gone to I a wrong gate, and they marched back by the same route, followed by a jeering, excited crowd, including a number of women. An tho boyfl ir cached George-street there were cries of "Down them," and they were surrounded. One was struck in the jaw, but the presence of a solitary constable did something to check the hecklers, who were now all youths. A number of plain-clothes constables appeared and bundled the youths into a passing tram.