Big Production Loss
PfeSs A'ss%.
SETTLEMENT EFFORTS FAIL
By TeUgrapTi
-Co'py'righi
Received Tuesday, 8-.15 p-.ni. SYDNKY, Juiy 23. All sontliern pits are irow idlb and nloi'e thail 4000 miners are mvoivccl in the strike which is cosling the production oi' 11,000 tons oi eoal daily on the soUthem coast. Talks in Oanbcrt'a between tlih men 's leaders and the novernment yielded no basis oi' an early , settlement. The eompulsury eoiit'ereuce' tomori'ow is Ihe last ehanc'e to avei'i; an ihdnstrial efisis which can close 12,000 jobs in ihe sonth eoast industrievS-. . Victorian indnstry which, for five weeks, has been without Ihe issne oi Jilaek eoal from New South WaleSj is virtually paralysed. Only hospitnls and food proeessing- works are on the issite list. The Olassworks will elose at Ihe ond of the week, "Wooltop pi'odiietion has ceasod. Hnnufaetnring gToeeries output is down to a third and niateh factories, sugar refineries and breweries expect to exhaust all fuel reserves hy the weekend.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 July 1946, Page 5
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