STAY-IN STRIKERS LIVE MAINLY ON ROCK MELONS
SYDNEY, February 5. . Thirty coalminers staging a stayln strike at the Curlewis coalmine are existing- mainly on rock melons. They a'J avent below yesterday morning the avowed intention of staying t"ere until certain elaims are granted. Last night, however, two men went ^ miles to Gunnedah to buy food. *ley returned with a wide range of eatables, but the main item was several dozen rock melons. The main body of men will surface a-morrow for the first time since the jpimatum to meet the Newcastle °a' Authority. Their elaims concern 'Vo,'_kin»' conditians and shortages of ^uipment.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5321, 6 February 1947, Page 5
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102STAY-IN STRIKERS LIVE MAINLY ON ROCK MELONS Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5321, 6 February 1947, Page 5
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