Australian Colliery Troubles.
A Conference Declined.
(Received To-day, 12.6 a.m.)
Sydney, This Day,
In connection with tho strikes in the Northern Extended and other Newcastle district mines, the Colliery Proprietors Association has refused the request of the Miners' Federation for a Conference the miners asked. The Conference, in view of the proprietors granting an increase in the hewing rate as settled by the Arbitration Court, and also that both parties should approach the Court with tho object of having the award revised. The proprietors rofused, on the ground that the Miners' Federation had initiated the action which resulted in the disputed award, and that tho award provided for a conforonce in caso of any dispute.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7678, 30 January 1904, Page 5
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115Australian Colliery Troubles. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7678, 30 January 1904, Page 5
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