TRIMMERS' STRIKE
SETTLEMENT NOT REACHED
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 30th May, 9 m.m.)
■SYDNEY, This Day. Hopes that the compulsory conference of the parties to the coal trimmers' striko at Newcastle • would lead to settlement have not be«n realised, although he conference reached a basis' of settlement A mass meeting of members of the Trimmers' TJnion declined to endorse the action of their representatives and decided that the strike should continue. . '. Already a majority of the collieries on the Maitland and Newcastle fields are closed owing to a shortage of wagons, and about 12,000 miners are idle. A large number of crane hands have been dismissed by v the Bailway Department.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 124, 30 May 1927, Page 9
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