AUSTRALIAN MINERS
NO SIGN OF. COMPROMISE. AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 3. The prospects of the settlement of the coal deadlock by compromise this weekend have been dissipated by an official statement by the mining industry officials, who repudiate the proposals to this cud made earlier in the week by Mr Sutherland (engine drivers’ organiser). 'They contend that it has already been agreed by the miners’ unions and the engine drivers that they cannot tolerate any wage reduction whatever, while the owners have already made it plain that the only basis of compromise would bo a slight wage reduction. The miners’ officials also made the dramatic- discovery that atnong'Mr Sutherland's proposals was an agreement with the mine owners to refrain from interfering with the engine drivers’ wages for a period of throe years, which the miners’ officials interpret as an attempt to save their own skins at the expense of the coai miners.—Australian Press Association.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20787, 5 August 1929, Page 9
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