TWENTY MEN DISMISSED
DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENT IN COAL DEADLOCK SERIOUS EFFECT FEARED SYDNEY, Friday. There was a dramatic development in the coalmining dispute today. Ten of the drivers and 10 of the firemen employed on the South Maitland railways were dismissed by the South Maitland Railway Company, which handles coal from the mines and is outside the Northern Collieries’ Association. The drivers and firemen had been ordered by their union to refuse to draw any more coal from these mines, in which men have been working ever since the lock-out of last March. The stoppage of this source of coal supply will have a serious effect on the passenger train services and the gasworks. A special meeting of the mining unions is to be held next week to considered the latest developments. It is reported that an attempt will be made to close all the mines in which work is now proceeding with the object of compelling the Government to intervene. Officials of the Enginedrivers’ and Firemen’s Association claim that the only way to bring matters to a head is to completely hold up industries and transportation facilities.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 11
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187TWENTY MEN DISMISSED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 768, 14 September 1929, Page 11
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