THE WAGES BOARD.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12763, 3 February 1910, Page 3

THE WAGES BOARD.

OWNERS APPEARING. THEIR DEMANDS. . (Received Feh 3, 0.10 a.m.) • v Sydney, Feb 2. The Newcastle owners informed the Wages Board of their desire to come before the Court, and submitted claims which were very comprehensive. Counsel thought it would facilitate the business if time were given to consolidate the claims. , The Court agreed and counsel for the owners then urged that it was desirable that the miners should return to work, and that the Board should make it clear that, n the interests of the- determination of the industrial dispute, work should be carried on without outsidft unlawful attempts to obtain concessions, which it was the function of the Court to erant or withold according to the frue juslice of the oaso. The mng felt they were at a great in being asked to. proceed wh lo the men wero trying in an unlawful wa> M^ud^aKiiat although the Board had no right to order the resumption of work, it had the privilege of doing everything it possibly could to bring about such resumption, bat fa the meantime, the taking o endence must go on. . Hc + h^lth e ir iesdav next for the miners to file their replies to the owners' claims. 'C owners' claims HUjj mand a reduction upon the present "atos of payment. The reductions may be fairly guaged by taking any of the first class seams on the borehole seam. Tim. liewinc rate proposed is 3s 11W g nkedU^d S ellingpr:ce of coal is Us, with a rise or fall ot fourpen^ for every shilling alteration £ the selling price. For working pllars the rate proposed is 3d less, wnuo for tops, average earnings to be oomSlDdand a rate struck to give, lls^a Say on the Maitland seam. For pick Sera the rate will be 2s 2d per ton, b^t^^r« proposed for filling dirt and working wet and deficient places are considerably lower than those demanded . by the miners. The owners demand eight hours at the face.