THE COAL STRIKE.
a CONFERENCE ON THE HEWING RATE. Press Association.- Electric,Te!egrapD,—OopjrighJ, Sydney, May 9. The Southern Owners' Association will confer next Wednesday with the miners. The conference will be held at the reqaeab of the latter. The subject to be discussed is the advance on the hawing rate. Stone?, May 10. Thirty miners of the Gartlee colliery have resumed work on terms equivalent to 3s 6d per ton. There is a feeling growing, that the strikers will shortly resume work despite the association. A number of masters refuse to pay back pay on the ground that the men left in a body and did nob give individual notice. A test will probably be taken to try the legality of this step.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10128, 11 May 1896, Page 5
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