UPHEAVAL COMING
N.S.W. COAL INDUSTRY. - \ AN OWNER’S WARNING. LOWER RATES WANTED (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION—- ' Received 11.10 a.m. to-day. NE WCASTLE, May 2. Mr John Brown, a wealthy coal owner, had 'a conference with the miners’ officials and warned them of an impending upheaval without equal in the history of the State, forecasting that a strike would precede it. He added: “We must get back to the 1914= rates if we are to compete with the Victoria’s brown coal, and I warn you that there will be only two mines working- in Newcastle and Maitland fields two years from now. Have it working or striking, which ever way you like, but vou will have to take it.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 5
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121UPHEAVAL COMING Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 5
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