COAL STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA?
Miners Prepare For Long Hold-Up CLAIMS INCLUDE DEMAND FOR 30-HOUR WEEK (LIMITED PRESS 4SSOCIXTIO* —COPYRIGHT*) (Received July 27, 1 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 26. The newspapers give prominence to plans for a general strike by the coal miners, who are demanding a 30-hour week, a pension scheme for miners, greater safety measures, better protection against dust, and other reforms. A conference of the miners’ executive with colliery proprietors to discuss the claims has been fixed for August 4. In the meantime, the miners are quietly arranging for credits and sustenance to tide them over a protracted period in the event of the failure of the conference and a holdup affecting the whole of Australia. Mr W. Orr, the miners’ general secretary, estimates that he will have credits of more than £200,000.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 27 July 1938, Page 11
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134COAL STRIKE IN AUSTRALIA? Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 27 July 1938, Page 11
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