QUEENSLAND MINERS
OVERWHELMING VOTE TO END STRIKE FINANCIAL POSITION OF FEDERATION. DESCRIBED AS DESPERATE, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. BRISBANE, May 6. At aggregate meetings held today the Queensland coal miners voted overwhelmingly in favour of re- • turning to work. Their financial position was described as desperate. ‘ The secretary of the local union, Mr. A. Phillips, told his fellow miners that the Miners’ Federation, whose headquarters’are in Sydney, was bankrupt. They owed £7500 on the second instalment of New South Wales food dockets, and were committed for £ll,OOO on a third for dockets for their miners, and they had borrowed £20.000 which they were bound to pay back.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1940, Page 5
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106QUEENSLAND MINERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1940, Page 5
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