GASWORKS STRIKE.
MEN’S GOOD BEHAVIOUR
GOVERNMENT POWERLESS.
MELBOURNE, Aug. 16,
The stay-in strikers at the West Melbourne and South Melbourne gasworks are preserving a self-imposed discipline which is evoking public admiration. A man may not go to the gates to embrace his wife and children or accept delivery of a hot dinner and a clean shirt without obtaining permission from a committeeman.
There was no gas whatever in some suburban homes yesterday, and to-day only a pale weak flame was allowed for two hours for breakfast. No attempt is being made by the strikers to molest or hamper the emergency staff, who are generating a very small supply of gas under trying conditions.
The strike is most embarrassing to the Dunstan Government, which, although it has the powers to force the hands of the companies to maintain adequate supplies or pay punitive fines, is barred by political reasons from proclaiming a gas emergency. The Premier (Mr A. A. Dunstan),, who is at the mercy of the Labour Party for his majority, is quite tinable to take drastic action to relievo the situation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 220, 17 August 1937, Page 7
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