AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1927, Page 2

AUSTRALIA

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) N.S.W. RAILWAYS SYDNEY, Sept. 9. The annual report of the Railway Commission discloses a loss for the year totalling £451,618. COMMUNISTS RELEASED SYDNEY, Sept. 10. The leaders of the Sacco-Vanzetti procession had the fines paid on their behalf, and they were released from gaol. MT. MORGAN MINE SYDNEY, Sept. 9. A company has been formed by the two leading smelting proprietories in Australia, and a number of mining magnates, to acquire the Mount Morgan mine for which they are willing to pay £lOO,OOO. The mine will be reopened but only certain workings exploited. Miners will be asked to accept reduced wages, but will be given a share in the mine. QUARRY DISPUTE SYDNEY, Sept. 10. About a dozen members of the Enginedrivers and Firemen’s Association employed at Moruya quarries, getting stone for the harbour bridge, who struck a few weeks ago, and later resumed on the understanding that their claims for higher wages would be dealt with, have again struck. They state they will not resume work till the claims are agreed to. The men claimed an increase of thirty shillings weekly, which was not conceded. Three hundred other employees at Moruya are idled, and a hundred others on the actual bridge work are threatened with, stoppage unless a settlement is reached.