COLLIERY TROUBLES
SEVENTY THOUSAND MEN IDLE OWNERS BELIEVE SETTLEMENT POSSIBLE. UNION OFFICIALS DOUBTFUL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 6. Seventy thousand miners are idle in Northumberland and Durham, as a result of the objection to the working of three shifts daily under the Eight Honrs Act. Coal is dribbling in in small quantities ito the shipping ports. The owners expect a settlement, but the union executive officers arc pessimistic, their agents failing to persuade the men to yield. NEWCASTLE STRIKE TRIAL OP MB BOWLING AND OTHER LEADERS. SYDNEY, January 7. Judge Rodgers has been appointed to hear the charges against Messrs Bowling, Butler, Hutton, and O’Connor for participating in a strike meeting on the South Coast last week.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7021, 8 January 1910, Page 5
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