MINERS' STAY-IN STRIKE
Received Tuesday, 8.40 p.m, S'YDNLY, Feb. 4. Tlilrtv coalminers staging a stay-in - strike at Curlewis coalmine are existing mainly on rocknielons. They all went below yesferday with the avowed intention of staying-' there until eertain 1 claims are granted, • Last night, however, two men went 17 miles to Gunnedah to buy food. They returned with a wide range >of eatables but the main item was several .dozen rocknielons. The main body of the men will surfaee tomorrow for the ffrst time since the ultimatum, to meet the Newcastle Coal Authority. Their claims coneern working conditions and sliortages of equipment. p'l i - n ■>.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 February 1947, Page 5
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