COAL STRIKE THREAT
DECLARATION BY FEDERAL PREMIER ISSUE FACING THE PEOPLE. | LAW OR LAWLESSNESS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY, February 9. The Prime Minister, Mr R. G. Menzies, declared today that if the coal mining unions perpetrated the folly of a. widespread strike the issue facing the people would be whether they were on the side of the legally constituted tribunal or on the side of lawlessness. He had no doubt where the people stood and what their answer would be. The representative of the colliery proprietors declared that their patience was exhausted. He added: "There can be no further concessions. The Arbitration Court, to which we are bound and whose decisions we respect, recently gave the miners many benefits and imposed additional burdens on the coal proprietors. “We cannot be coerced by the employees. We shall fight to the finish.” Official records before the Arbitration Court disclose- that the average earnings of Australian miners are £8 to £9 a week, compared with £2 Ils 6d earned by the British miners.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1940, Page 5
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170COAL STRIKE THREAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1940, Page 5
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