N.S.W. COAL STRIKE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2711, 15 January 1910, Page 5

N.S.W. COAL STRIKE.

CABLE NEWS. - /

DISTRESS IN COBAR. United Pimchm Ahrooiation —Cowman* SYDNEY, Jan. 14. There is much distress in Cobar, owing to the closing down or the shortening of the hands in the copper mines as the result of the coal strike. The Government lias been asked to start ielief works. From the .present indications it is expected that the 'majority of -miners’ lodges in Newcastle and Maitland will support the delegate board’s recommendation against being represented on the Compulsory Wages Board. Mr. Peter Bowling, addressing a, meeting at Ivurrikurri, warmly attacked some of the leaders of the old Strike Congress, adding: “But now we have got rid of the traitors, and the proprietors are so sick of the fight -that many of them are .willing to give in.” Eventually, he said, the new Congress, although perhaps not able to obtain all their demands, would secure an honorable, peaceful settlement.

NON-UNIONIST WHARF LABORERS AT WORK. .(Received JanuaryVl4, 10.35 p.m.) •SYDNEY, Jan. 14. Non-unionists are loading the P. and 0. steamer Palermo. THE SOUTHERN MINERS’ BALLOT. (Received January 15, 1.2.50 a.m.) The 'Southern miners’ ballot will be completed to-morrow. There is reason to believe that it will favor acceptance of the Wages Board.