WILL USE FORCE TO PREVENT MEN FROM WORKING.
MINERS’ REPRESENTATIVE MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT. (United Press Assn.—By Electrla Telegraph—Copyright. > (Received December 10, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 10. The latest developments in the coal trouble, summarised, are:— The Greta, Rothbury and Paxton Lodges voted against the resumption proposal. The men’s leaders at the aggregate meeting threatened violence if the Government attempts to open the Rothbury mine. Messrs Davies and Hoare, who made the agreement rejected by the men, are now urging the meetings to reject it. Trades Hall officials are against a general strike owing to lack of funds. Speaking at the aggregate meeting, Mr Shakespeare, the C'essnoek miners’ representative said: “We will have 13,000 men at Rothbury from other districts to stop the men working.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18940, 10 December 1929, Page 1
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