AUSTRALIAN MINERS

Evening Star, Issue 19064, 6 October 1925, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN MINERS

HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. SYDNEY, October 5. An aggregate meeting of colliery employees at Maitland considered the miners’ claims, and decided to leave the matter in the hands of the executive of the Minors’ Federation. The meeting defeated a motion that, should the employers not concede the minimum wage of £5 10s a week, further aggregate meetings should bo held. [A previous message stated that a meeting of men employed in the northern collieries protested against delay in the hearing by the Coal Tribunal of their claims. They decided to hold aggregate 1 meetings throughout Newcastle and the Maitland fields on Monday, at which a demand will ho made to tho owners to grant a minimum wage of £5 10s a week. Failing the demand being granted, further aggregate meetings will beheld. All tho mines m the northern field will thus be idle on Monday.] AGGREGATE MEETINGS. SYDNEY, October 6. (Received October 6, at 10.20 a.m.) Aggregate meetings of the colliery employees at Weston, Cessnock, Kurri Karri, and Paxton passed a resolution that in the event of tho proprietors refusing to concede the claims for a minimum wage of TS 10s by the end of the week, aggregate meetings would he held throughout the whole organisation on Monday to further deal with the position.