COLLIERY DISPUTE
PATIENCE EXHAUSTED NO FURTHER CONCESSIONS PREMIER’S COMMENT (Called Press Assn.—Elec. T el Copyngbt) SYDNEY. Feb. 9 A representative of the colliery proprietors declared their patience la exhausted. He added: "Thera can be no further concessions. The Arbitration Court, to which we are bound and whose decisions we respect, recently gave the miners many benefits and imposed additional burdens on the coal proprietors. We cannot be coerced by the employees. We shall fight to a finish." The Prime Minister, Mr Menziea, commenting on the likelihood of a strike, said today: "If the coalmining unions perpetrate the folly of a widespread strike, the issue facing the people will bhe whether they are on the side of the legally-constituted tribunal or on the side of lawlessness. I have no doubt where the people stand, and what their answer will be.” Official records before the Arbitration Court disclose that the average earnings of Australian miners are between £8 and £9 a week, compared with £2 11s 6d a week earned by British miners.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21035, 10 February 1940, Page 7
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