AN ULTIMATUM
DELIVERED TO AUSTRALIAN STRIKERS GOVERNMENT WILL REOPEN MINES. UNLESS MEN GO BACK TO WORK. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. CANBERRA April 23. The Prime .Minister, Mr Menzies, drama! ically delivered an ultimatum tn the coal miners today when he announced in the House of Representatives that unless the mineworkers decide this week to resume work and -seek a settlement of their dispute by constitutional means the Government will take steps to re-open the mines at the beginning of next week. Mr. Menzies added that the Government was determined that war indus-, tries and essential services should be maintained. Speaking in Melbourne, the Chief Judge of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, Sir George Beeby. today declared: —■ “I will state finally that the Court will not call any conference to settle the coal strike, but if the men resume work the Court will begin the hearing immediately of any application which may be made for a variation of the existing award and further action will be taken to set up conciliation committees in the coal areas.
“It would be quite futile to call a compulsory conference to discuss the strike against an award made in the first instance as the result of a compulsory conference."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1940, Page 7
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