LABOR TROUBLES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1915, Page 8

LABOR TROUBLES.

THE MATTJ,ANI> MUSTERS

NOTICE OF STRIKE GIVEN.

{.Press Association.]

SYDXEY, Oct. 19. The Alaitland miners, at a. meeting, decided to give fourteen days' notice of si strike. Tln« men contend that if the price of coai is raised to twelve shillings a toi^ they should be granted am increase of^sixpenee on the hewing rate instead of Jlircepence. For years the hewing rate has teen leckoned on a ten shillings basis, though coal actually was seiliu;| ;tL eleven shillings per" ton. The %en claim that they hav> long been underpaid. The rsse to twelve shillings is equivalent to a tw» shill'i'gs rise