N.S.W. COAL DISPUTE
ROTHBURV STILL OUIET NO MOVEMENT OF TRUCKS. MINE STILL PICKETED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) SYDNEY, Jan. 2. Matters are still quiet on the coalfields. No coal has yet been trucked from Roth bury, pending the result of the railwayman’s ballot on .the subject of whether the Union of Railwayman should handle non-union coal. Roithbury is picketed by strikers, who are in no way aggressive. The High Court proceedings testing the validity of Judge Bceby’s order for the resumption of work at the idle collieries at pre-stoppage -rates is still in progress and considerable evidence Us being taken. Among to-day’s witnesses was David Davies, general secretary of the Miners’ Federation, who deposed that the railway employees would" refuse to haul coal from Rothbury, the Seamen’s Union would refuse to handle it, and there was likely to be a general upheaval in Australia.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 3 January 1930, Page 5
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