MINERS' WAGES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 30

MINERS' WAGES.

SYDNEY, January 14. Summonses for breach of the Arbitration Courts order have been issued against the wheelers connected with the Newcastle coal strike, and the oases will probably be heard next week. Soane confusion exists as to whether the rule nisi affects this procedure, but the Crown Prosecutor holds that it does not in any way affect the present proceedings by the Crown. SYDNEY, January 15. It is estimated that since the strike at Newcastle the loss on sales and wages has been about £40,000. The coal exported from Newcastle last year was 2,951,000 tons, a grease of 469,000 tons in volume and £289,000 In value compared with the previous year. The decrease was all round. The exports to New Zealand fell off 24,000 tons. Horses have been removed from the Pelawain Colliery, indicating a lengthened stoppage of work. So fax thirty-one summonses for breaches of the strike clause of the Arbitration Act have been issued, returnable on Wednesday. SYDNEY, January 16. The Hetton Colliery has come into line with the other proprietors, and

notified the miners of a reduction in wages.

The Dudley Co-operative Colliery wheelers have submitted a proposal to resume work. The directors are considering the matter. It is reported that some of the mines are importing coal-cutting machines. The directors of the Dudley colliery have rejected the wheelers’ proposal to resume work.

At a mass meeting of wheelers, it was decided that none of the strikers return to work unless they all do.

The wheelers are to be called out of every pit in the Newcastle and Maitland districts.