MINERS ADMIT DEFEAT
expected soon to accept OWNERS’ TERMS NO VICTIMISATION PLEA SYDNEY. Tuesday. It is thought at Newcastle that the coalmining strike will be over in a few days. A rank and file conference is to be held there on Thursday, when it is expected that the men’s leaders will advise them to accept the owners’ terms, subject to guarantees of no victimisation and the preservation of seniority rights. Mr. R. James, Labour member of
the Federal House of Representatives !or Hunter, caused a stir by a speech on May Day, when he frankly admitted that the miners were beaten. He added that it was very disagreeable to have to say so.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 965, 7 May 1930, Page 9
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