OWNERS ADAMANT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23128, 29 August 1938, Page 10

OWNERS ADAMANT

COALMINES DISPUTE UNMOVED BY THREATS MEN'S CLAIMS REJECTED STAY-IN STRIKE ENDS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright SYDNEY, August 27 Mr. Justice Cantor, of tho Industrial Commission had an informal talk with the coal miners' representatives and colliery proprietors today in regard to the present dispute in the coalmines.-

The owners indicated that they were not prepared to yield to the recent threats of a general strike, nor to concede any of the claims made by the Miners' Federation.

The conference lasted only a few minutes.

In connection with tho stay-in strike in tho Broken Hill Proprietary's coalmine. Lambton B, at Newcastle, 47 minors remained below for 48 hours and received somo food secretly sent down by sympathisers. Tho strike, however, was settled early this morning and the men came to the surface.

ENGINEERS' THREAT NO FEDERAL INTERFERENCE SYDNEY. August 27 The Amalgamated Engineers' Union announces that unless a settlement is reached in the strike at the Fishermen's Bend aircraft factory, it will bo extended on Wednesday to all Government munition works and the Garden Island naval depot. The effect would be to tio up tha Government's dofenco programmo. Tho Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, stated to-day at Canberra that the Government will not intervene in the aircraft factory strike. The matter, he said, lay entirely within tho purview of the Arbitration Court, which must be xipheld.