COAL DISPUTE
SUMMARY OF DECISIONS MINERS AGAINST RESUMPTION A THREAT OF VIOLENCE (United Press Association -By Cable Copyright.) (Received 10, 10.35 a.m.) Sydney, Sept. 10. The latest developments in the coal trouble, summarised, are: Greta, Rothbury and Patton lodges voted against the resumption proposal; the men’s leaders, at an aggregate meeting, threatened violence if the Government attempts to open Rothbury; Mr. Davies and Mr. Hoare, who made the agreement rejected by the men, are now urging meetings to reject it; Trades Hall officials are against a general strike owing to lack of funds.
Speaking at an aggregate meeting, Mr. Shakespeare, the Cessnock miners’ representative, said: “We will have 13,000 men at Rothbury from other districts to stop the men working.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 304, 10 December 1929, Page 5
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120COAL DISPUTE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 304, 10 December 1929, Page 5
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