PEACE RE=ESTABLISHED
ON AUSTRALIAN COALFIELDS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, April 23. Peace on the coalfields has been completely re-established. The Prime Minister, Mr Curtin, gives full credit to the Minister of Labour, Mr Ward, for this achievement. He says it is real news that there is not a solitary coalmine idle anywhere. Everyone is back at work. Mr Ward, however, in a statement, frankly declared that he, personally, was opposed to the coercive Regulation 77, which enabled the Government to deal with absentees from the mines by drafting them into military or to labour corps. “I believe this is the wrong way to secure maximum production,” he said.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 3
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108PEACE RE=ESTABLISHED Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 3
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