N. S. W. GOAL STRIKE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2670, 27 November 1909, Page 5

N. S. W. GOAL STRIKE.

INDIGNANT LEADERS—POSITION MORE SERIOUS. United Phess Association —Copyright. SYDNEY, Nov. 26. Mr. Lee, acting-Premier, asks both sides of. the strike to meet him on Saturday. It is considered very unlikely that the meeting will have any result. The proprietors show no- intention of departing from the position they have taken up. The strike leaders are indignant at the action of the Railway Commissioners in regard to the haulage of coal. Mr Hughes claims that it amounts to taking sid'es against the -men, and- makes it a harder task for those who want peace, not war. ft is ■ rumored that the Strike Congress is -considering the question of calling out the railway men. 1 The -'position is considered more serious than at an-y previous time. The Gas Company has now only three weeks’ supply of coal, and the Water and Sewerage Board has seven weeks’ supply. Preparations are being made for materially curtailing the country railway services. The crew of . the steamver Kaitangata will be paid off to-morrow, and the vessel laid up. The strike committee report that funds are coming in well. the RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS’ ACTION. (Received'November 27, 12.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 26. The Railway Commissioners state that it is inaccurate to say that they refuse to haul coal. What they decided to do was not to use up their stocks of coal in haulage of coal unless they were allowed to have first call on the supplies taken from the mines, at a reasonable price. FURTHER EFFECTS OF THE STRIKE. The wool buyers have decided to refrain from purchasing at the salesowing to the strike. The Railway Commissioners have decided to curtail the railway and tram services owing* to the shortage of coal. AN EXTRAORDINARY PROPOSAL. (Per Presb Association.! DUNEDIN, Nov. 26. At a meeting of the Harbor Board to-day, Mr. Belcher gave notice of motion as follows —“That this Board expresses anti records its sympathy with the miners and -their dependents now struggling for freedom at Newcastle, that we deplore the obstinacy and stupidity of the employers' who have ■driven the miners to revolt,-a gainst unfair conditions, - thus -causing widespread loss and inconvenience- to tne community generally, and that the Board’s practical sympathy with the miners he shown by voting £25 to the fund now being raised for the assistance of the minei'3.” >Mr. Belcher is the secretary of the Seamen’s Union.]