INDUSTRIAL WORLD
BELGIAN RAILWAYS. THE STRIKE SPREADING. Prcaa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BRUSSELS, May 29. The railway strike is spreading. The signalmen and locomotive employees at Liege and Tournai have joined, but the telegraph and telephone employees at Antwerp have resumed work.—A and N.Z. Cable. LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA. N.S.W. COLLIERIES DISPUTE MASTERS’ WAITING POLICY. SYDNEY, May 30. (Received May 30, at 7,20 p.m.) Matters in connection with the coal troubles are quiet. The masters are depending on a waiting and they claim that the union leaders’ aim is job control, which the employers are determined to resist to their uttermost. The •men show little inclination at present to accept the owners’ terms. Meanwhile the stacked coal at the idle Maitland pits is being loaded with the assistance of nonunion labour under police protection, the strikers _ mostly contenting themselves with easing their feelings against the interlopers. The demonstrations, which include the playing of the “Dead March,” are generally ot a peaceable character. The police quickly suppress anv tendency towards rougher methods.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18876, 31 May 1923, Page 7
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