TROUBLE AHEAD.
Sydney, December 19. •’ The South Clifton Colliery in the Southern District has notified a reduction in the hewing rate to an average of Is 9d.
A meeting of the Miners’ Delegates Board at Newcastle discussed the notices of reduction issued lately, and resolved not to submit to them. It was also decided to recommend the miners in the several districts to demand an advance of 4d per ton, to take effect on January 14th. If this resolution is endorsed by the districts a general strike must follow. One of the largest colliery proprietors states that the action of the men will be tbe means of bringing-the masters together again. Some understanding or agreement must be arrived at to protect them from the encroachments of the men, and fix such price for coal as will return a fair profit, while winning hack from the southern and New Zealand collieries the trade taken away while high prices ruled here.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1190, 21 December 1894, Page 19
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