THE COAL STRIKES.
SETTLEMENT EXPECTED. j By Telegraph—Preßs Association—Copyright ; Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, April 11. i Two more collieries on the northern I held have ceased work, but the fears ; of a general strike have abated, and it it expected that a settlement wifi be reached by the end of tlic week. A message received last week- stated that, the idling in the coal-pits in the Newcastle and Maitland districts was largely due to the resentment of the miners towards Major Crane, the Dis | triet Magistrate. Whenever lie sits in | these districts the employees throw the j pits idle as a protest against his alj iegedlv imposing unnecessarily harsh sentences 0,11 any of them appearing before him. The coal-owners regard these constant irritating interruptions as merely another form of the application of the darg. The miners threatened to boycott the local races if Major Crane attended them.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17014, 12 April 1923, Page 9
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