LABOUR PARTY'S PROPOSALS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12941, 4 December 1909, Page 5

LABOUR PARTY'S PROPOSALS.

Turned Down by the Proprietors.

Further Developments Feared.

SYDNEY, December 3. T-he Labour Party submitted proposals for settlement, .which suggested both parties should withdraw their letters to Mr Wade and start negotiations c)c hovo with the proprietors and the strike congress. The proprietors turned the proposals down. The congress, though it sent no official reply, is yet understood to be favourable. Mr Hughes stated to-night that the position for bringing the parties together is hopeless. The action of the lumpers over the Palermo's cargo is regarded as serious. Further developments in connection with the handling of imported coal are not improbable.