Cutting Down Wages.
Per United Fresa Association. 1W Klectric Telegraph— Copyritflu. SYDNEY. April J^ 1 - At a private conference of coal-owners in the Newcastle district, all but foitr agreed to reduce the selling price of cotil frtriii »1* to, 9s (id or 10s |«cr ton, with a consequent reduction in the owners' hewing rntc from 4s 3d to Rs lOd or :>,s &i\- U is understood that notice that reduction would be made on May 17tli will bo issued W>-morrow. It will affect over four thousand men. The niiiicrt. have not yet been apprised oi the decision and, under the existing agreement, fourteen days" notice oi tho alteration is necessary. It, i H believed in mining circles that the men will not quietly submit to the reduction, which owners clnim is neces.sury. owing to slackness of the trade and keen competition. It is alleged that, though tho nominal " selling price is lls per ton. rates for a considerable timo have been gradually falling, and contracts havo been made as low n-* 9s
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Southland Times, Issue 19035, 1 May 1903, Page 2
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