COAL DEADLOCK

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 72, 20 January 1930, Page 5

COAL DEADLOCK

COMMUNISTS ACTIVE NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE In defiance of the police Communists are still on the qui vive in New South Wales with the object of forming a “Miners Defence Army.” Advices from Melbourne! state that a strike settlement basis has not been found. MELBOURNE, Jan. 19. Attempts to settle the coal troutne are still continuing between the Prime Minister (Mr Scullin), the coal owners and the Premier (Mr Bavin). The New South Wales parties have not yet found a basis for agreement. POLICE STOP PROCESSION “DEFENCE CORPS’' RESOLUTION SYDNEY, Jan. 19. About 50 Communists assembled out. side the Sydney Trades Hall to-day with the object of enlisting names for a “Workers Defence Corps.’’ Members of the Kurri Coalfields Pipers’ Band gathered to head tno procession through the street, but the police suppressed the procession and the crowd wont into the Trad"- Hail, where a resolution was carried pledging themselves to form a workers’ “army’’ to combat the “bosses’ tactics in every sphere.”

RAILWAYS RETRENCHED 2000 EMPLOYEES SACKED MELBOURNE, Jan. 19. The retrenchment of railway services has been responsible for the retirement, or dismissal, of 2000 employees during the past four months. It is now announced that scores of others must go, because the Government is unable to raise funds to continue the works policy.