STILL NO PEACE.
ABORTIVE COAL CONFERENCE IN AUSTRALIA. MINERS DEMAND PRE-STOPPAGE CONDITIONS. PREMIER ON UNEMPLOYMENT. United Press Association—By Eleetrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received Monday, 8.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 10. The breakdown of the Coal Conference an hour after its commencement to-day, leaves peace on the coalfields as far off as ever. The miners’ representatives announced that they were not prepared to accept any terms other than pre-stoppage conditions. The colliery proprietors expressed their willingness to re-open the mines on the basis of the compromise agreement of November 23, which the miners’ representatives again rejected, on. the ground that their organisation had given them no mandate. A deadlock was thus reached, and the parties dispersed. The conference had been opened by the Premier, who expressed a hope that a settlement would he effected, pointing out that it would make the Government’s task easier ftom the standpoint of reducing unemployment.
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Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1930, Page 5
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146STILL NO PEACE. Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1930, Page 5
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