MINERS’ WAGES
MEN TO HOLD MEETINGS POLICY TO BE DISCUSSED. ALSO OWNERS’ PROPOSALS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRK TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 10.20 a.m to-day. SYDNEY, May 4. Consequent, on Mr. Browne’s statement regarding conditions in the coal industry, the coal miners aie organising aggregate meetings which will be called throughout the coalfields, ana the policy laid down by the All Australian Trades Union Conference last week for ooservance by the miners will be discussed.
A conference of miners’ officials'is being held at Newcastle on Tuesday to receive the decisions of the aggregate meetings. Mr. T. Hoare, president of the Northern Miners’ Federation, said that when the owners made their longpremeditated attack on rates the fight would not be one-sided. Mr. Hoare added that the system of private ownership of coal mines was chaotic, and if the miners had to return to the 1914 rates, as suggested by Mr. Brown the miners’ wages would be reduced by one-half, which would be a mere dole.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 May 1928, Page 5
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164MINERS’ WAGES Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 May 1928, Page 5
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