COALMINE DISPUTES
(VOLUNTARY LABOUR MAY BE USED. (BMIED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTIUO.HT.) (Received 10th May, noon.) SYDNEY, This Day, Tho Northern coalowners will meet on Monday to discuss the question of introducing voluntary labour in the idle mines. It is estimated since the Maitland pits closed that the employees have j lost nearly £250,000 in wages. Another south-coast pit, the Metropolitan, employing 600 men, has been made idle. The Southern owners have issued an ultimatum to the men that unless the idle mines resume immediately the conference with the Miners' Federation, fixed for to-morrow, will be abandoned.
SYDNEY, 9th May/ The coal outlook is blacker than ever, the owners having decided to use every means possible to work the mines. The only ray of hope is a split in the miners' ranks, the moderates opposing the Communist section, who advocate a fight to a finish.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 7
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143COALMINE DISPUTES Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 7
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