MINERS' FEDERATIONS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12459, 8 February 1909, Page 2

MINERS' FEDERATIONS.

1 NEW ZEALAND DELEGATE AT NEWCASTLE. , J [United Pbess Association.] Received Feb Sij 0. 53 a.m. '/■ •.■' -Sydney, Feb 7. • Mr Hickey, the New Zealand coalmmera' .delegate, attended a special meeting of. the committee of management of the Northern Otil'hery Employees' Federation,', at Newcastle, and explained that hismission to Australia .was "to place the position of the coahniners of the . Dominion before .the mining cbmmunitias here. Ha hopad" that" a plan would be formulated "tp r bring the Newcastle and ' Ne.w; '.'j'Zeal&iia. coalminers' organisations cloßJer together. The meeting decided: tiiat the executive officers of the Fed&ration should confer with Mr.! Hiekey during the. .coming wßek, • with "a view to arriving at a ssheihe ifor'coordinate'action. ' " • •-. r. 1 ;-