COALMINERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 May 1923, Page 5

COALMINERS

* __, 1 — TROUBLE IN AUSTRALIA. ■T CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPY RI^ICT SYDNEY, May L At the conference between th;? oalxoiners and the owners a <teadlo ; .'- was .reached, but a fuitiber conferen-I.- will be held on Monday next. The owners, state the obstacle to a settlement was their claim to the right to dismiss employees without being questioned. MELBOURNE. May 1. Trouble is threatened at the Wonthaggi State coal mine, the men projpusing to work only te;ti shifts insie&rj «£• eleven per fortnight.