NAVY COAL SUPPLY TO KEEP N.S.W. GOING

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17864, 4 June 1926, Page 15

NAVY COAL SUPPLY TO KEEP N.S.W. GOING

COAL STRIKE SITUATION CONTINUES GLOOMY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, June 3. The dispute in the Clyde Works has been settled, the management agreeing to re-engage six men discharged in connection with the forty-four hours strike. The Federal Government has decided to have available 200.000 tons of the Navy Department’s coal in New South Wales to enable essential services and industries to be carried on during the coal strike. It has also reconstructed the Coal Advisory Board which will immediately consider the distributioi of Navy coal supplies. There is bitter feeling among the miners in the northern field against the continuation of the strike. Meetings of miners’ lodges confirmed the Delegate Board’s decision to seek a compulsory conference between the strikers, the miners and the owners, and one lodge carried a motion that the Federation be asked to give the engine drivers seven days’ notice in which to resume, failing which the Federation should endeavour to find men to replace the striking engine drivers and firemen. A special conference of the Miners, Central Council and the officials of the Enginedrivers’ and Firemen’s Association, held in an endeavour to reach a settlement of the coal strike, failed to arrive at a decision. It will resume to-morrow, but the outlook is not promising.