COAL STRIKE
HEW SOUTH WALES A SINISTER ANNOUNCEMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph Copyright. SYDNEY, June 7. It is staled that the passive resistance by the coal owners is irritating the miners’ representatives, who real that the men will be starved into submission. The fact that some of the mines in South and Western New South W r ales have been working while the northern mines have been idle has enabled industries to keep going, and in a. large measure lias defeated the object of the strikers. A sinister announcement, however, was made to-day by Mr J. T. Atkins, general secretary of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association, who intends to recommend Ins State Council to withdraw all the members of his organisation from the pits which are now working, thereby cutting off coal supplies from all parts of the State. He said he looked for no amelioration ol the position from tile Coal Commission, and from the first he was.convinced that an ‘‘all in strike was essentia! to the success oi tho miners 1 cause.
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Evening Star, Issue 20196, 8 June 1929, Page 12
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175COAL STRIKE Evening Star, Issue 20196, 8 June 1929, Page 12
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