MELBOURNE STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 224, 16 June 1920, Page 7

MELBOURNE STRIKE

FIFTEEN THOUSAND WORKPEOPLE IDLE

INDUSTRY PARALYSED

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Melbourne, June 15.

It is estimated that 12,000 workers are idlo through the striko. Industry is paralysed. .

Seven hundred volunteers lmvo enrolled ut the bureau, including professional men, and university engineering students. The employees' representatives conferred with tho Premier, who later met the Cnbinot, but made no publio statement.—Press Assn. AN ABORWTCONFERENCE (Rec. June 15, 11.15 p.m.) Melbourne, June 15. A oonferenca of employers and strikers proved abortive. There will be no stoppage of work by sewerage employees, as their demands have been conceded. There has been a great rush on lamp shops, though only a small proportion of the demand is met. The pricos of lighting material Are rising rapidly. Thero are now fifteen thousand idlePress Assn. position" In" sydney UNION- SCOUTS POSSIBILITY OP STRIKE. Sydney, June 15. The gas employees met the companies in conference, and agreed on the main points at issue. The union Tesents the suggestion and scouts the possibility that Melbourne's dispute will extend to Sydney.—Press Assn. ' STRIKE OFTELSH MINERS SETTLEMENT ARRIVED AT. London, June 14. A strike of 15,000 miners in the Rhymney Valley, in Wales, has been settled, and a threatened general stoppage has thus been averted—Reuter.