Labour World

Inangahua Times, 10 December 1929, Page 3

Labour World

Australian Press Asaa.—United Service I {By Tit.tetris TaiegrapU—Copyright), j The Coal Dispute i i Voting Against Resuming j Violence Threatened Reed 10 35 a m | Sydney, This day j The latest developments in the coal trouble summarised are that the I Greta, Rothbury and Paxton Lodges I voted against the resumption proposal J of the men’s leaders at an aggregate > meeting, and threatened violence if I the Government made attempts to ! open the Rothbury mine. Davies and Hoare, who made the agreement rejected by the men, are now urging the meetings to repeat that the Trades Hall officials are against a general strike, owing to lack of funds. Speaking at an aggregate meeting, Shakespeare, the Cessnock miners’ representative said—“ We will have 13,000 men at Rothbury from other districts to stop the men working.”