MEN STAY BELOW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 7

MEN STAY BELOW.

STRIKE AT BROKEN HILL. SYDNEY, July 29. Another stay-in strike by coalminers is reported from Newcastle, where 187 miners and wheelers employed at the “John Darling’’ colliery owned by the Broken Hill Proprietary at Belmont are remaining below because of refusal bv the management to reinstate a wheeler dismissed for allegedly striking a pit pony on the head with a wooden sprag. The sit-down strikers of this occasion are better organised. They have sufficient food for six days, most of it having been taken into the mine surreptitiouslv by the last shift, who also left their own crib behind when quittilin*. Moanwhile no attempt will bo made to win coal from this colliery. COMPULSORY CONFERENCE. .SYDNEY, July 29. A compulsory conference on Monday before the Industrial Commission will deal with the dispute in the coal industry in New South Wales. A message from Sydney published yesterday stated that the coal miners’ executive had decided to summon on 'Tuesday a conference of delegates from all collieries to meet the members of the federal council of the Miners’ Federation in Sydney and determine whether work Bliould cease. The consensus of opinion was that a general strike was inevitable. The miners’ representatives hinted that in that event they would not hesitate to extend the hold-up to other States and completely paralyso industry.