MISCHIEVOUS REPORT
SYDNEY COAL STEIKE UNLIKELY.
(t'NIIXD PRESS ASSOCIATION.— COPTRMHT.)
tvt w,r SYKNEY. 23rd January. Mr. Wilhs,.the secretary of the Coalminers Federation, denies that there is any probability of a general strike of coal miners.
He states that the reports of such an eventuality are incorrect, misleading, and nfißchievous.
A cablegram which was published yesterday stated that the Coal-miners' Federation was placing before the proprietors almost immediately a demand for a complete operation of the 1919 ] o tr which included a six-hour day, hank to bank, and a five-day week. It was. stated that unless the proprietors agreed to all tf? c demands there Vis every possihilty of, a genera! strike i.v coal-miners throughout Australia in FpCrua^,
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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117MISCHIEVOUS REPORT Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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