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AUSTRALIAN ACTION
Most Decisive Steps Yet Taken
To Maintain Output Special Australian Correspondent. Rec. 1.30 p.m. SYDNEY, this day. The Commonwealth Government's new national security regulations to prevent unauthorised stoppages on the coalfields will be gazetted to-day. Representatives of 54 miners' lodges, with a total membership of 11,000, have decided to impose penalties not only on men causing strikes, but also on men attempting to cause them. The new regtflations make it an offence for anyona to cause a strike or participate in a strike not authorised by the coal mining unions' district executive. Offenders will be liable to penalties of £100 fine and/or six months' imprisonment.
The Sydney Morning Herald calls this action "the most decisive yet taken to maintain coal output." "The Miners' Federation has pledged itself to continuity of operations," said Mr. Curtin. "I accept that pledge. It has been clear that stoppages of recent weeks have been unauthorised stoppages instigated by individuals for purposes which will not bear examination and which have not been approved by the union."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 174, 25 July 1942, Page 5
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174MINE STOPPAGES Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 174, 25 July 1942, Page 5
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