IS STRIKE BREAKING?
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Task Gf Restraining Miners Said To Be [lerculean
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Received Wednesday, 11.25 a.m. SYDNE*, August 10. Northern miners' Qlncials say thai ii Liie ranK and tiie today reject the central couneil's recomxxienaacions, uhe councu wiii be unlikely to cail further aggregate ' meeuings to end the coai striKe. Tne recommendations in effect asked the miners to eontinue the siriKe. The likely procedure will be that the central council wiil meet in Sydney tomorrow to convene a meeting of the Combined Mining Unions' Council on Friday, which, after studying the position, can order a resumption of work on Monday. The precedent for this was m3de in the recent Kemeira Tunnel dispute, when aggregate meetings were dispensed with and .the men returned to work at the carection of the council. One official said that it had been a Herculean task to hold big sectipns of the federation back from returning to work against the direction of the federation. He added that it would be impossible to restrain such movements beyond the weekend. Strong meetings of members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at Cessnock and Charlestown carried a vote of no confidence in their representatives on the Combined Mining Union's Council and demanded that delegates should be appointed from the coalmining section of the union. The present delegates, who have voted with the Communists on all matters relating to the strike, have no direct connection with the engineers who work in the mines.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 August 1949, Page 5
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244IS STRIKE BREAKING? Chronicle (Levin), 10 August 1949, Page 5
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