Coal Lumpers' Strike.
MASS MEIETIIiNrG ..OF LUMiPE'RiS.
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• (Per United Vje.ss Association.) .SIDNEY, April 23, The lumpers at a miass meetingl ye-?-•terday resolved,,to appoint delegates to' lay the position! before the Newcastle coal lumpers and South Goa-.t miners. Should the outcome of this aotioni be that -this men at other ports take any steps to- show that thiey sympathise with 1 the Sydney Union %a trouble would become much more serious than it is «t present. Picketing is being extensively employedl, amd tKe pickets have persuaded num'b&rs of men, not t» aclcept work under the new conditions. Policemen a.re stationed in the vicinity of the Ibureau, but so far their sefrvicses have! not been required tliero. Two isolated oases where violent methods have been resorted to have been reported). vc , (Alt .Brynefc whjarif tih© police had tor init«rfere to rescue a non-unionist, who was •being roulghly handled. The. second case occurred at Miller's Poiut. I
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Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10524, 24 April 1907, Page 4
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155Coal Lumpers' Strike. Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10524, 24 April 1907, Page 4
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