LABOUR UNREST.
MINERS’ THREATS IN N.S.W. (Uaitod Press Association —By Electrie Telegraph—Copyright.) NEWCASTLE, May 3. Mr John Brown, a wealthy coal owner, had a conference with the miner’s officials and warned them of an impending upheaval without equal in the history of the State. Forecasting that a strike would precede it, k© added: “We must get back to the 1914 rates if we are to compete with Victoria’s brown coal. I warn you there will be only two mines working in the Newcastle and Maitland fields two years 1 from now. Have it—working or striking, whichever way you like, but you will have to take it.’’
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17947, 4 May 1928, Page 9
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106LABOUR UNREST. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17947, 4 May 1928, Page 9
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