WILL GARRY ON
THE TRIMMERS’ STRIKE.
CONFERENCE FAILS
THOUSANDS OF MINERS IDLE
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. SYDNETY. May 30. Hope®, that the compulsory conference on the trimmers’ strike would lead to a settlement were not realised, although the conference reached a basis of settlement. A mass meeting of members of the trimmers’ union declined toj endorse the action, of their representatives, and decided that the strike should continue. Already a majority of the collieries l on the Maitland and Newcastle fields have closed, owing to the shortage of waggons aiul about 12,000 miners are idle. A large number of crane hands have been dismissed hv the Railway Department.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 May 1927, Page 9
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