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STAY-IN STRIKE. I
AT MINE.
Demand Fresh F
Horses.
SYDNEY, Tuesda?.
urn oía pic Horses, ijoxor ana
Pat, liavo suddenly leapt to inmo
ns tho causo of Australia's second
stay-in strike.
At 7 a.m. more than 200 miners
employed nt tho Burwood colliory
at Whitebridge wont below ns usu
al to tho (iOO ft. lovel,, and an
nounced their decision to stay un
less Boxer and Bat -wore replaced
hy other horses moro fit to do
their work.
They claim that Boxer and Pat and
other horses employed at tho_ colliory
aro unfit becauso bf rheumatism nnd
old ace, and that tho minors conse
quently are losing production and
money.
Broken Hill Pty., owners of Burwood,
refuse to admit that any dispute ex
ists botwoenit and tho men, and will
take r.o action.'
-Tho assistant secretary of tho Nor
thern Miners' Federation (Mr. J. B.
Simpson) 'told minors' wives at the pit
top this afternoon that during tho ne
gotiations tho management had said
that so far as it was concerned the
men below could stay thoro, and that
when tho management wanted them out
it could got them out in ten min
! utcs.
The strike was unpremeditated, and
I the men took with them food for only
one shift. To this will be added tho
crib of tho surface hands, which waa
thrown down to tho men when tho
strike beenmo known.
About 5 p.m. wives of tho miners
arrived at tho pit with sacks of food,
but they were not allowed to go to
tho nit-head. They walked three miles
to tho old Burwood shaft, hoping to
got tho food down that way, but
I found tho cages were not working. Lato
this aftornoon thcro-was a largo and
angry body of women at tho colliory,
but tho police forced tho crowd back
to tho road. Several old men and
some boys among tho strikers wero
allowed to como up.
Miners say tho men probably could
last for three days, but air pumped into
tho mino will mako tho nights bit
terly cold.
Burwood employs 400 men, and pro
duces nearly 1450 tons of coal per
day._
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