N.S.W. MINERS REJECT TERMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1929, Page 7

N.S.W. MINERS REJECT TERMS

DELEGATES DENOUNCED / STRIKE TO CONTINUE (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.) SYDNEY, December 5. A couple of the miners’ lodges of the Maitland collieries held a meeting to consider the coal settlement terms to-day. Their delegates on tlie recent conference were literally howled down and were called traitors, .the hooting lasting until the meetings broke up. No decision was reached. The Kurri miners’ lodge rejected the settlement terms and decided to formulate a policy for the continuance of the coal strike. GENERAL STRIKE DEMANDED. ' (Received December 6, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 6. Following the rejection of the coal settlement agreement by four* thousand miners at Kurri, a general mining strike throughout the Commonwealth was declared for by the Labour Council at a meeting called to consider the debacle. A meeting of Kurri miners resolved that lodges be instructed immediate-, ly to appoint two representatives each to confer with a view to formulating a policy to continue the struggle. The adverse decision of the Kurri i meeting means an end of the present settlement proposals, as it is considered impossible that any other centres will accept the termd in face of the . 1 Kurri rejection. The State Cabinet is meeting shortly to consider their decision to reopen certain, mines, and the question of continuing the dole to men who refuse to return to work.