VICTORIAN MINERS
■fr DECISIVE VOTE ON STRIKE ISSUE BEING TAKEN TODAY. SERIOUS THREAT TO CLOSE t DOWN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE, May 9. Victoria’s State coal mine, Wonthaggi, where the miners will vote tomorrow, is thought to hold the key to the strike decision. A majority for resumption would mean the collapse of the strike, but a vote for continuance would certainly hearten those favouring accepting the Federal Government’s free labour challenge. There are about 2000 employed at Wonthaggi, where the strike involves extra issues in a quarrel with the State Government, which owns the mine. The Wonthaggi men were on strike three weeks before the general strike began. The State Government's serious threat to close the mine permanently unless the strikers resume may influence some miners to vote for resumption.
Wonthaggi has a long career of financial loss, but the State has perserved with it in the hope that the mine would fulfil the object of its establishment, to make Victoria independent of New South Wales coal. Frequent stoppages at Wonthaggi have largely nullified this object.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1940, Page 5
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177VICTORIAN MINERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1940, Page 5
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