COALFIELDS DISPUTE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20962, 27 February 1930, Page 11

COALFIELDS DISPUTE

CONFERENCE DISCUSSION. " TOO MUCH WORD SPINNING.” (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, February 20. (Received Feb. 27, at 2 a.m.) Discussion was resumed on the coalfields dispute at the Trades Union Conference.

Mr H. Sutherland, organiser o! the Mining Enginedrivers’ Association, severely criticised Mr J. S. Garden, secretary of the New South Wales Labour Council, whom he blamed for prolongation of the dispute. “Garden,” he said, “is very good at giving advice from his office chair. There has already been enough word spinning from the minersMeaders without Garden. What we would like to see is the colour of his money.” He had stepped down from the pulpit to a paid trade union 30b and had made more compromises in industrial disputes than l all the other organisations put together, in fact, he was known as the compromise king. Mr T. Hoar, president of the northern Miners’ Federation expressed the hope that the trade union movement would continue its financial assistance to the coal miners for if they were beaten all other industries would have to suffer reduced wages.