COLLERIES IDLE
ENGINEERS ON STRIKE IN N.S.W. DEMAND FOR FORTY HOUR WEEK. ATTITUDE OF FEDERATION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 9.20 a.rri.) SYDNEY. This Day. Over a dozen of the northern collieries are idle, by a strike of 300 members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, who are demanding a fortyhour week. The executive of the Coal Miners' Federation endorsed the strikers action. but emphasised that efforts were being directed towards a uniform policy of a fort-hour week and advised the strikers to return to work.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1939, Page 5
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86COLLERIES IDLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1939, Page 5
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