COURT’S ORDER IGNORED

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1929, Page 9

COURT’S ORDER IGNORED

DEADLOCK ON COALFIELD FREE LABOUR AT ROTHBURY THREATS MADE BY MINERS - By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.20 p.m. Sydney, Dec. 20. Messages from the northern coalfields state that no miners applied for work at any of the associated idle collieries to-day in accordance with Judge Beeby’s order for the reopening of those mines. Neither did the coalowners make the slightest efforts to reopen them. The judge’s order has thus been ignored by both sides. Coal hewing is still proceeding smoothly at Rothbury and some trucks have been filled ready for transportation. About two thousand strikers marched to a small bush colliery called the “My All Mine,” near Cardiff, this morning and induced the non-union miners employed there to refrain from going to work. This colliery had been working right through the dispute until today. MINERS FIGHTING PROPOSALS. WILL AGAIN VISIT ROTHBURY. Sydney, Dec. 20. At the Rothbury meeting of representatives of the whole-of the northern mining lodges it dsawe cmfwyp ern mining lodges it was decided to again go to the Rothbury mine on a greater scale and in a different manner to that of the previous occasion. Other decisions made were to boycott any industrial company or firm supplying foodstuffs to free labourers and police, that all men should be withdrawn from the whole unassociated collieries on the northern fields, and that every lodge picket its respective mines on Monday. The police have confiscated 12,000 military cartridges from the Cessnock Rifle Club for public safety. Branxton shopkeepers, fearing boycott, refused to serve the police who 'arrived in the town.

On behalf of Mr. J. Garden, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, a writ has been issued out of the Supreme Court against Smith’s Newspapers, Ltd., claiming £5060 damages in respect to an article dealing with Garden s attitude during the Rothbury trouble.