STRIKE AT DARWIN
DEFENSE FORCES INTERVENE. NECESSARY SUPPLIES TRANSPORTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day. 11.45 a.m.) DARWIN. This Day. Protected by armed guards, the defence forces of Darwin intervened in a railway strike to provide themselves with food and supplies of which they had been short for a month. A hundred soldiers, using army lorries, carried away about fifty tons of flour and perishables,which the wharf labourers unloaded from a British .freighter on Monday and which had been standing hi trucks on the jetty since then. The railwaymen are striking for higher wages.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1939, Page 6
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94STRIKE AT DARWIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1939, Page 6
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