SPREAD OF DISAFFECTION.
ATTITUDE OF COAL OWNERS.
THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE.
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. SYDNEY, Nov. 11.
The southern coal owners declined to participate in the proposed conference, which they could .not recognise, and declined to meet, in conference representatives* of bodies of employees with whom they had no business connection 'or bodies of employees employed in another district with whom they had never stood in the relation of employer to employee. Further, the association had always been ready to meet its own employees in conference, but had consistently declined to deal with a matter in dispute so long as the men were outside the pale ofthe law by being on | strike.
The, United Storemen's Union decided to strike on Tuesday in support of the miners.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14509, 12 November 1909, Page 2
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126SPREAD OF DISAFFECTION. Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14509, 12 November 1909, Page 2
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