TROUBLE AT NEWCASTLE.
THE AFTERNOON SHIFT. SYDNEY, March 11. Lodge meetings at Stanford, Merthyr, Pelaw Main, Hepburn, East Greta, South Greta, and Cessnock adopted the Delegate Board's minutes authorising a conference on the afternoon shift question, and appointed delegates to attend it. They were instructed to favour an open conference with an independent chairman, and to take only oral evidence. CONSUMERS PREPARED FOR A STRIKE. SYDNEY, March 11. All the big users of coal more or less prepared for a Newcastle strike, many, thousands of tons being stored at Sydney. It is rumoured that some of the colliery proprietors would welcome a stoppage in order to cancel unprofitable contracts.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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109TROUBLE AT NEWCASTLE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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