COAL STRIKE
WIDESPREAD STOPPAGE IN AUSTRALIA
IDLE MINERS NUMBER 25 OC-0.
WORKERS IN OTHER INDUSTRIES AFFECTED.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 'This Day, 11.50 a.mJ SYDNEY. This Day. Some 25,000 mine workers throughout Australia, including 17,000 in New South Wales, will become idle today as the result of a coal strike, which officially began at midnight, when ostlers and engine-drivers engaged on maintenance tasks ceased work. It is feared that thousands of workers in other industries will soon been t of work as the result of the coal stoppage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1940, Page 8
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88COAL STRIKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1940, Page 8
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