N.S.W. COAL DISPUTE

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1929, Page 7

N.S.W. COAL DISPUTE

GENERAL STRIKE PROPOSAL. • (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, December 6. The coal situation is still menacing. The latest development is that the Disputes Committee of the Labour Council left to-day for the- Northern fiields, with the object, it is believed, of testing the feeling for a general strike. They expressed the view that the acceptance of the peace terms would amount to a betrayal of the miners. Commenting on the Labour Council’s advocacy of a general strike in the coal industry, Mr H. Sutherland, the organiser of the Mining Enginedrivers’ Association, said that, the advocacy of a general strike at the present moment, when 50 pei’ cent of the workers in the mining industry have been ten bitter months on grass, is the logic of fools and the gospel of men more concerned with. advertising themselves than with the interests of the working class. CESSNOCK MILITANT. (Recd. Dec. 7, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 6. A meeting of 500. Cessnock niiners rejected the peace terms by an overwhelming majority. They jeered at and grossly insulted their delegates to the recent conference, whereat the proposed peace terms were arranged.