DEPRESSION AT NEWCASTLE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 20 February 1909, Page 2

DEPRESSION AT NEWCASTLE.

MINERS OUT OF WORK. Sydney, Feb. 19. The depression of the Newcastle coal trade during the past five months is having a serious effect on the district. A large number of-miners have been without constant work for months. The starting of relief works 'has been urged. The Labour Council is starting a campaign. against the Government's policy of securing immigrants through the Salvation Army. It is characterised as an attempt 'to lower wages, and the Council has decided to hold a public protest meeting;