THE COAL TRADE STRIKE

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12775, 27 January 1905, Page 5

THE COAL TRADE STRIKE

MEN RETURNING- TO WORK. . ' By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright, % (Received January 20, 10.5G p.m.) Sydney, January 25* • The wheelers employed at Seahami and' West WaUsenet collieries have offeree! to re-»' sum© work out the masters' terms, viz., .101 per cent, reduction. 'The Ellainore Yale , wheelers resumed work to-daj at 10 per . cent, reduction. It is •; understood the miners are making up five per cent, of this reduction. : The secretary of the Collie Employees', Federation has written to the Attorney-! General asking if the men agreed to return' to work, and were induced to states a. case for the Arbitration Court, would the Court sit. within three weeks to hear the dispute?. The Attorney-General 'replied that until all hands actually resumed in obedience to the order oi the Court, he would lie unable to promise. When the men had resumed ho would approach the Court, and ask for an.' early sitting. • \ The Attorney-General made a statement ! to-day that typical cases having been heard at the Police Court, and"all the ' availablefacts dealing with the various collieries elicited, ho would not waste time in the hearing of every individual case. lie would, therefore, file an indictment at the quarter sessions against all the other defendants. Sydney, January 26. : Three hundred more summonses are about to bo issued against the wheelers in connection with the strike at Newcastle collieries. . , , ' . t The Ellainore Vale miners, after being' idle for three weeks, decided to re sums work. They will do their own wheelings (Received January 27, 1.5 a.m.) , Sydney, January 26* The wheelers have held an aggregate meeting, at which they decided to resume \ work on Tuesday on the proprietor*' t terms. ' . : 1 ■/,