CITIES WITHOUT COAL,

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 3

CITIES WITHOUT COAL,

SYDNEY'S FORTUNATE POSITION ' strike has been a tremendous handicap on commerce and industry, partSulariy *hpI ,C^Tl and uth AiisLli^anJ' 'idS «f he a sigh of relief when theLet ? t noHr m e T er y harbor begins to got up steam, and the factory wheels revolve again. • * wneeis , bane 1 " 11"^ Btar ¥ J > m Bris-' Dane. It was confined to Brisbane for n7rea™e°d nth n a . The men ' increased pay on account of the eoiooTdftionf Ii g6nera l r ? ViBiOD <* *Sr condit.ons. No , one took much notice but apparently undercurrents wererun'denf;^^^ 19 the i^2 suddenly extended the . trouble to Mcl t°t U er ne 'B an f d joined ™ tour days • he Sf,?f ° re the i nd of thG «onth all men W + T\ a - ffected ' S ix thousand men from th c ships were out of work directly , and tens of thousands of oE„ were mdirectly affected,. condition! "th wenTonT S6ttinff V ° rSe «■ tu ™ Melbourne and Adelaide, m the depth ">f winter, are almost without coaf Their wafcthTdi^ T from »™ SS < vvaies— the different gauges mak« rail ransport very difficuft-and th? strike has deprived them of light, heat and N ?h?J P;In -' ■■*"/ A <^^e's run, only "n the morning and afternoon. The pebble m .houses and business establishments S*t . nres or heated are patiently shivering. Supplies of gas for ?iot mg Hnt c T d f r tb f »™«t.£tri£ Sv pLS e,:lls,and H bath Ba r« * !*?-™i r . y -7 Factories have closed down m all drrect.ons, and thousands of unfortu" nates, are unemployed evce^Tni 8 11!*?*«• * !*?*«• Potion ; m. fact. ZJ P \u - the e$ ew *P of the coastal ?S:,T ,a no o th j n S here to show that a strike ,s on Sydney, can get the indSoensable coal from fields near at hand . are the strikers themselves, and, judging by the response to appeals- for monetae Mp. there « not much sympathy with,. The great mass of people are '"onife They M Pr efD^ and "°n^vol»LSryV Vhey ask for nothing -better than S he country be allowed to get on witb ™^ 9 ™7 m P ? ace ' a "d thfere: S"J s'reat^ and resentment thafc >yerybpdv should suffer because irresnoSextremists like to lead labor bS* off on these. foolish and purposeless a I ventnres.-A Uckland Herald VcSSbSI' ■ ■