RAILWAY STRIKE
ACTION BY COMMISSIONERS IN N.S.W. DEREGISTRATION OF UNION SOUGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE. April 9. Application is being made to the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, by the New South Wales Railway Commissioners for the deregistration of the Australian Railways Union, whose membership is 44,000, of whom 16.000 are in New South Wales. The allegation is that the union flouted the Court and abetted and encouraged the strike of railway employees on the Broken Hill Line, which was thereby closed for many weeks. The Chief Judge. Sir George Beeby. today granted the union a fortnight’s adjournment, declaring that the union would have to choose between arbitration and direct action.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1940, Page 6
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109RAILWAY STRIKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1940, Page 6
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