ANOTHER COAL STRIKE THREATENED
BYDNEY, May 2. A waniing that "another coal crisis ihreatens if the industry is not placed ujider State eontrol, " and that "the miners are tired of talking" was issued last night by the central executive of the Miners' Pederation. The colliery® proprietors reply that the federation's ontburst is merely an attempt to divert attention from its failure to eontrol the miners. "We do not believe that the Federal Government has sufficient courage to overeome the diffieulties whieh apparently face it, in bri/Ugiug down effective measures," said a federation executive. "Having reached this conclusion we intend to take all the steps necessary to support, convinee, or influence the New South Wales Government to proceed with a measure whieh is now in draft f orm. ' ' Meanwhile, there is a threat of a eomplete stoppage in all the Sonth Coast mines beeause of the dispute over dust compensation rates. Coal production for the first three xnonths of 1946 was 500,000 tons less than for the same period in 1945, and the coal stocks keld by the utilitios average between two days' and -a week 's supply.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 May 1946, Page 3
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