MINERS' STRIKES.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1916, Page 5

MINERS' STRIKES.

SHIPPING PARALYSED. NO IMPROVEMENT IN POSITIW,' Auttralian-N.Z. Cable Association* ' Sydney, Nov. Ti < Owing to the likelihood of being lijfri able to fulfil contracts as the result ofthe coal strike, inter-State shipping companies are refusing to issue return tickets. i The Minister of Industry has de< parted for Melbourne to confer with! the Federal Ministers on the question of] co-ordinated action as to the coal strike, the question of Federal or State control .having arisen. Ministers have agreed' to load coal on the transports. Shipping at Newcastle is largely paralysed una all the- trading steamers are hung up} Tim crew of the steamer Atua, which) should have departed for Fiji to-daiy have been paid oiF. Received Nov. 7, 8 p.m. •'." ' * Sydney, NoV. f. There is no improvement in the co»| crisis. It is already affecting indiw tries. The number of unemployed is in« creasing. Big engineering works «ro slowing down. Other factories »r«: working half time. i Provision for a compulsory confer«W# has not yet been passed. Melbourne, Not. 7* Five thousand are idle as tho WWlt of the closing of the confectioners ttdt the Dur/lop Rubber Company.