QUEENSLAND MINERS CALL OFF STRIKE
Overwhelming Vote FEDERATION CLAIMED TO BE BANKRUPT By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Maf 6, 10.45 p.m.) BRISBANE, May 6. At aggregate meetings held todaj- the Queensland coalminers voted overwhelmingly in favour of returning to work. Their linancial position was described as desperate. The secretary of the local union, Mr. A. Phillips, told his fellow miners that the Miners’ Federation, whose headquarters are in Sydney, was bankrupt. They owed £7500 on (lie second instalment of New South Wales food dockets, and were committed for £ll,OOO on a third for dockets for their miners, and they had borrowed £20,000 which they were bound to pay back.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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108QUEENSLAND MINERS CALL OFF STRIKE Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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