THE N.S. WALES STRIKE

Evening Star, Issue 14226, 27 November 1909, Page 5

THE N.S. WALES STRIKE

MR LEE’S FAILURE. STRIKERS APPEAL FOB FUNDS. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WATCHING. 100,000 TONS OF SHIPPING IDLE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, November 27. (Received November 27, at 9.,45 a.m.) The weather is dull and threatening. Mr Leo’s (Acting Premier) -efforts to arrange a meeting of parties to-day failed. The Strike .Congress accepted the suggestion, but the southern and western proprietors declined, and the northern proprietors telegraphed that they had not had time to decide the question. The Strike Congress have issued a mani feste to Hie unions throughout the Commonwealth appealing for funds. In the Federal House the (government were urged to take action towards settling the strike.

Mr Deakin said that he considered Federal action was not justified in the present state of the law and circumstances of the strike. The Government, however, were watching, and the first opportunity that the Commonwealth powers permit of intervention will be taken advantage of. Thera are twenty-two steamers and sixteen sailers, with a tonnage of 100,000, laid up at Newcastle.

One serious. effect of the shortage of coal is that the dredges on tho Newcastle and other fiar harbors bave stopped operations.

CORRECTING MISSTATEMENTS,

SYDNEY, November 26,

’lho Railway Commissioners state that it is inaccurate to say that they refuse to haul coal. What they have decided to do is not to use up their stocks of coal in the haulage of coal, unless they were allowed to have first call on the supplies taken from tho mines, at a reasonable price. DISORGANISED TRADE, SYDNEY, November 26. Wool-buyers have decided to refrain from purchasing at the wool sales. Owing to the strike the Railway Commissioners have decided to curtail the railway and tram service, on account of the shortage of coal.