QUIETUDE ON COALFIELDS
ROTHBURY STILL PICKETED
HEARING OF AWARD CHALLENGE.
RAILWAYMEN’S BALLOT AWAITED.
By Tele«ra.ph—Press Assn.—Copyrivht.
Rcc. 10.30 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 2. Matters are still quiet on the coalfields. No coal has yet been trucked away from the Rothbury pits pending the result of the railwaymen’s ballot on the subject, of whether the union of railwaymen should handle non-union coal.
Rothbury is picketed by strikers, who are in no way aggressive. The High Court proceedings testing the validity of Judge Bceby’s order for the resumption of work at the idle collieries at pre-stoppage rates is still in progress, and considerable evidence is being taken. Among to-day’s witnesses was°David Davies, general secretary of the Miners’ Federation, who deposed that the railway employees would refuse to haul coal from Rothbury, the Seamen’s Union would refuse to handle it, and there was likely to be a general upheaval in Australia.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1930, Page 11
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