LABOR PROPOSALS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVIII, Issue LVIII, 4 December 1909, Page 5

LABOR PROPOSALS.

PROPRIETORS TURN THEM DOWN SITUATION~SERIOUS.

SYDNEY, December 3. Tho Labor Party has submitted "proposals for a settlement, which suggested that both parties should withdraw their letters to Mr Wade and start negotiations do novo with the proprietors and the Strike Congress. The proprietors turned the proposals down. The Congress, though it sont no official reply, yet is understood to do favorable. >, Mr Hughes stated to-night that tho prospect of bringing the parties together was hopeless. The action of the lumpers re the Palermo's cargo is regarded as serious. Further developments in connection with the handling of imported coal are not improbable, i