COLLIERIES IDLE
AUSTRALIAN DISPUTE DEMAND OF ENGINEERS WEEK OF 40 HOURS (Reed. Nov. 3, 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 3. Over a dozen northern collieries have been rendered idle by a strike of 300 members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, who are demanding a 40-hour week. , The executive of the Coal Miners’ Federation endorsed the action of the strikers and emphasised that efforts were being directed for a uniform policy of a 40-hour week, and advised the strikers to return to work. The strikers are those employed in power houses and the maintenance of mine machinery.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 3 November 1939, Page 7
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95COLLIERIES IDLE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 3 November 1939, Page 7
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