MODERATES PREVAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 5

MODERATES PREVAIL

N.S.W COAL CRISIS "REDS" FORGET PROMISES SYDNEY, Feb. 9. It is reported that Communist emissaries :ue making final desperate efforts to secure supremacy of tlie niine-iiclds and the control of a big aggregate meeting which is being held on Tuesday. The moderates, however, are said to be concentrating in opposition to "Reds," whose promise of financial aid to the miners, if they showed fight, has not been fulfilled. Fines of between £SOO and £OOO have been imposed on the miners as a result of the recent disturbances, but not a penny of "Red" money nas, tnus far, ueen forthcoming. The Miners' Federation will not pay, because it did not countenance the mass demonstrations. The only hope of 4he convicted men, numbering about 100, escaping gaol is that the Communists will honor their promise to pay, but the feeling prevails that they will repudiate it. If the ex-. tremists fail to rush tho aggregate meeting, their influence is expected to wane rapidly. \ There is a growing body of moderate opinion among tho miners in favor of a settlement. ,A statement has

been published that the miners intended officially to advise the federal Government to-day of jthe bedrock terms of a compromise, but the Feder-' ation secretary, Mr. Davies, denies knowledge thereof. Mr. Woods, ) a delegate from the New Zealand MineX workers' Association, says the Dominion miners will pay a levy of 3J per cent, of their earnings towards the relief of the idle New South Wales miners. THE BAN ON BEER HOT WEATHER INTERVENES SYDNEY,, Feb. 8. The hot weather yesterday made beer "white" in Cessnock hotels. The idle miners, who had been declaring the bars all "black" for a month past, apparently became color blind and the bar-tenders had an exceedingly busy time when the ban was unofficially raised and men who had been unwilling prohibitionists set to work to drink up arrears. Meantime, the Cessnock municipal authorities had just completed, installations in the main street. Those strangely enough stand opposite the hotels but they only supply water, and now they are not wanted. # WORK TO RESUME NEWCASTLE COLLERIES (Received February 10, 12 noon.) SYDNEY, Feb. 10. It is understood that the safety men at several Newcastle district collieries that where affected by last month's disturbances, will resume work to-day under instructions to remain, despite any attempted picketing. .