NEWCASTLE MINERS
DISPUTE OVER DISMISSAL fIF A M/HFFI FR
Another stay-in strike by coal-miners is reported from Newcastle, where 187 miners and wheelers employed at the •John Darling" colliery 'owned by the Broken Hill.. Proprietary at Belmo nt are remaining below because of the refusal of the management to reinstate a wheeler dismissed for allegedly striking a pit pony on the head with a wooden sprag. The sit-down strikers on this occasion are better organised. They have sufficient food for six days, most of it having been taken into the mine surreptitiously by the last shift, who also left their own crib behind when quitMeanwhile no attempt will be made) to win coal from this colliery.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 9
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116NEWCASTLE MINERS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 9
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