STRIKE THREAT
DEMANDS BY ‘AUSTRALIAN MINERS THIRTY-HOUR WEEK & OTHER ITEMS. POSSIBILITY OF WIDESPREAD HOLDUP. SYDNEY, July 26. Newspapers give prominence today to plans for a general strike by coalminers, who are demanding the 30hour week, a pension scheme, greater safety measures, better protection against dust and other reforms. A conference of the miners’ executive and the colliery proprietors to discuss the claims has been fixed for August 4. In the meantime the miners are quietly arranging for credits and sustenance to tide them over a protracted period in the event of the failure of the conference and a holdup affecting the whole of Australia. ■ Mr W. Orr, the miners’ general secretary, estimates that he will have credits of over £200,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1938, Page 5
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120STRIKE THREAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1938, Page 5
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