COAL MINES DISPUTES SETTLED
BROKEN HILL PITS IN NEW SOUTH WALES (Received September 20, 12.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 19. The disputes in the coal mines, including the engine drivers’, were all settled today. Last Thursday the Broken Hill Proprietary Company issued a statement announcing its refusal to consider claims for a six-hour day in mechanical collieries and describing the miners’ demands as “repudiation in its very worst form” of the agreement reached last month between the coal owners and the Miners’ Federation. This statement was of great importance because the company controls three or four mines where the men had threatened to strike if a convention of the Northern Miners’ Lodge delegates endorsed the proposal to precipitate militant action to secure a six-hour day at mechanized pits.
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Southland Times, Issue 23310, 21 September 1937, Page 8
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