N.S. WALES COLLIERY STRIKE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14700, 7 December 1909, Page 7

N.S. WALES COLLIERY STRIKE

SITUATION COMPLICATED, ANOTHER OFFICIAL ARRESTED. WATERSIDE WORKERS CONTINUE WORK. Pr«sa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, December 6. Mr Hughes declares that the arrests enormously complicate the situation. Hi© Railway and Tramway Association refused to countenance a general strike. In voting money for strike purposes the association, ear-marked it for the specific uxe of all. The leaders who were arrested were bailed out within a few hours, The offence is alleged to have been committed on November 5. This was the date oil which tire 'Delegate Board recommended a strike. The police visited tho Trades Hall, and secured a largo number of documents and tho minute book relating to the proceedings of November 5. A mass meeting 0 f m j novg) j n cattle, was addre.ved by Mr Bowling and other leaders, and passed n, resolution condemning the Government's action. Everything passed off quietly. A MISUNDERSTANDING, SYDNEY, December 6. .Tho wharf labourers knocked oil unloading tile cargo of the steamer Dorset, The discharge of the Marmora's general cargo .lras fen commenced by unionists. (Received Dec. 6, at. 10.50 p.m.) Jho strike on. the Dorset was dire to a. misapprehension on the part of the men that a. general istriko had been ordered. They resumed work this afternoon. Mr Lewis (treasurer of tho Northern Miners' Federation) has been arrested. llioso who were arrested on Saturday appeared at the Ncwcastlo Court to-day and were remanded, till to-morrow. MEETING OF WATERSIDE WORKERS. MR HUGHES'S INFLUENCE. SYDNEY, Dwsmbor 6. (Received Dec. 7, nfc 0.40 a.m.) Ail important meeting of tho Waterside Workers' Union was held to-night. The meeting expressed confidence in the Striko Committee, but it was resolved to continue work. There was a strong feeling at tlie outset, that, the men should lay down, their but, Mr Hughes succooded in inducing them, to continue work. LIGHTING IN SYDNEY. iFeii United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Deoember 6. A private telegram from Waipoknftu slate that- Messrs Chambers and Booth, local patentees, are negotiating with tho Lord Mayor of Sydney to light that city with Dreadnought gas by the beginning of January. °