SPECIAL CONFERENCE
ALL PARTIES CONCERNED
PACIFIC EFFORTS FAIL
SYDNEY, 22nd December. A conference with the Prime Minister as chairman, was held on Saturday in Sydney, at which a number of members of the Federal Cabinet, also Mr. J. T. Lang (Leader of the New South Wales Opposition) discussed the coal position from every "angle. There was considerable bitterness, but no definite result was reached. The inside story of the conference reveals that the parties were on the verge of settling the dispute -when the miners 1 delegates themselves, anxious for some form of compromise, declined resolutely to make such suggestioa to the miners on the coalfields. They reluctantly told tho Federal Cabinet Ministers that- they must beard the lion, vi his den, for they were not prepared to do so. They had already had their lesson. Thus nothing practical came out of the conference, but the Prime Minister and his colleagues, including the iederal Attorney-General, Mr. Brennan, are resuming the conversations witti the miners' delegates on MonSOME SUGGESTIONS. Among the suggestions made at the conference was one that the Federal Government should commandeer the mines, pay the miners' 4s a ton subsidy on aU coal hewn in addition to sustenance, and if necessary use the Crimes Act and the military forces. Mr. Scullin, replying, said that the proposals were unconstitutional and impracticable; nor was the Senate likely to agree. He gave his hearers to understand he would not call upon soldiers either to defend or attackin. any industrial dispute. Mr. Lang, Leader of the State Opposition, who was responsible for the suggestion that the .mines should be seized, said that his plan would be to act first and legislate afterwards. JSear tho cyi of the conference both, the Premier, Mr. Bavin, and Mr M Donald, the chairman of the Northern Collieries Association, were sent tor and in a conciliatory spirit they did their best to find a basis for settling the dispute, which is agitating the whole of Australia in an alarming man-
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 11
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333SPECIAL CONFERENCE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 11
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