CARRY ON THE FIGHT

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1917, Page 8

CARRY ON THE FIGHT

UNIONS' THREAT

GOVERNMENT CONFIDENT.

COAL MINERS OUT.

Sydney Daily Telegraph, ia its iseat of 10th instant, gives the following summary of tie leading events of t> Btrike: —

The outlook in connection with i strike is more ominous than ever.

An extension rather a narrowi of the trouble appears likely. Negotiations between the unions' cor mittee and the Cabinet proved resui less, as. the Government adhered to i firm attitude. ■ , . ..■'. .

The Defence Committee lafet night -v ] cided to "cany on the fight" till tip card system was withdrawn, and announced that it was meeting othei unions not yeft involved in. conference. A decision as the outcome of suoh «

ference was probable to-day. In Parliament Mr. Fuller described the growing improvement in the tram and train services.

The support of public bodies, suburban! residents, and country people was being increasingly promised the Government throughout yesterday.

Volunteers for service where strikers had left their posts are offering freely. A mass meeting of wharf labourers decided to do no more work till the card system was withdrawn. The strikers organised a large procession through the city to the Domain, where speeches were made. ■ Mr. Willis, of the Coal and Shale Federation, advocated the one big union form of industrial organisation. A decision to raise funds on behalf of the strike was arrived' at by the Sydney Labour Council.

Its vice-president said the fight t only "just about to commence."