MINERS’ STRIKE
DISORDER SPREADING
(Reuter.)
HALJFAX (Novu Scotia), June 12
AVclrd was received here this morning, indicating that disorders are spreading in the ( ape Breton district, where the coal miners are striking, dieting is reported to have broken out in New Aberdeen, Glace Bay district. Five- hundred troops fully equipped’are en . route to New AVaterfui’d. When the striking miners and police clashed on Thursday, the former iyere still in possession of the power house, which they captured from the police. Looting of stores of the British Empiig Steel Corporation in the vicinity of New AVaterford.is reported.
AYONTHAGGI DISPUTE
MELBOURNE, June 13
Six hundred men struck at the AYonthaggi State Goal mine. The trouble was due to the management refusing to replace a hook instead of a link on the tail of the chain which harnesses the pony to the skip. The Mines Department states that the Union has ordered the strikers to resume.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1925, Page 5
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