QUEENSLAND STRIKE
COMMUNIST PLANS COLLAPSING (Rec. 11.10) BRISBANE, This Day. Communist 1 plans for a major industrial hold-up in support of the Queensland strikers are believed to be collapsing.
Trade union oflicials say that widespread support is now unlikely, and that Communist union officials, sensing the feeling, are no longer advocating a general stoppage. In southern Queensland the miners overwhelmingly rejected a call by the Communist general president of the Miners’ Federation, Mr I. Williams, for more aggressive strike action. In Melbourne, Mr T. T. Hollway, Premier of Victoria warned that if Victorian coal supplies are cut off as threatened 'by the secretary of the Australian Railways’ Union, the State Parliament would pass “the most severe penal legislation in modern political history” to smash the Communists.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 138, 23 March 1948, Page 3
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