STRIKE OF COLLIERY WORKERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8955, 4 January 1908, Page 5

STRIKE OF COLLIERY WORKERS.

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SYDNEY, Yosfcorduy. § The situation at Newcastle in again

becoming gravo. Six mines arc now idlo. The men demand an advance of fourpeuce per ton in the bowing rate. It is boliovod, according to reports circulated to-day, that if fcho etriko is not ended to-night fclio colliery owners intend not to go boforo the special Court sot up under the arrangement made by fcho Promior, Mr Wade, when the rocont trouble ondod. The Court is to moot on Monday at Newcastle. (Received To-day, at !>.<l-"> a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Altogether nino mines have boon rendered idle at Newcastle, including Lambton, Burwood West, Wallsoud, aud the Northern Extended. Tho Premior wirod to tho Prosidout of the Miners' Federation, urging tho resumption of work, and poiutiug out that lie could not emphasiso too strougly the gravity of tho situatiou. The wharf labourers' strike at Nowcastle continues. The strikers domaud an increase to Is 3d au hour for day aud Is 9d for night work. Tho crews assisted tho porinaueut wharf hands in slowly discharging arriving vessels. Tho Uuiou Company paid uon-Uniouists for discharging the Wakatipuat/tho rates demaudod by tho strikers.