THE NEWCASTLE COAL TRADE.
Circular from the Miners' Association,
4 General Strike lhreatened.
[United Press Assooiation.l m, v , Sydney, This Day. , Tbo Newcastle Miners' Association has issued a drcular to the members asking them to seriously consider the position and definitely decide whetbor the time has not arrived when an attempt should be made to obtain an advance in wages The circular also aska whether if a ballot were taken and a two- thirds majority was in favour of a strike, the members would abide by the result. The eirenhjr states that every effort had been tried dining the past two years to get the owners to work with the miners-in bring: ing about a better condition of trade, but all had failed. Tbe miners had volantanly accepted reductions, and had done all hey could in the interest of their masters, but the demaprjs of the latter were msatiabje and, th,e downward tendency of >yageshad apparentjy no. limit It l« ootntecT out that*\his w« the first time for many years that a direct personal appeal had been issued by the leaders to the men, The position is eonsidered very ominons, and a general strike is » IK eiy,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 50, 28 February 1896, Page 2
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197THE NEWCASTLE COAL TRADE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 50, 28 February 1896, Page 2
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