400 MILE ROAD IN QUEENSLAND

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23943, 10 May 1943, Page 4

400 MILE ROAD IN QUEENSLAND

♦ 2600 WORKERS ENGAGED (Rec. 10 p.m.l SYDNEY, May 9. A strategic road 400 miles long has been built through some of the most difficult country in northern Queensland. The work was done by 2GOO members of the Civilian Constructional Corps at a cost of a million and a half pounds. The secretary of the Queensland branch of the Australian Workers’ Union (Mr C. G. Fallon) claims that the work of the corps is a greater triumph than that of the Americans who built the highway through Alaska. Eighty per cent, of the men who built the road had never been on a roadmaking job before, but they built 34 bridges—one 420 feet long—and more than three miles of culverts, hewed 34,000 cubic yards of stone, and laid more than 1.000,000 tons of gravel. Progress was at the rate of 15 miles a day. The work was begun on September 14 last year. Fourteen camps and three hospitals were established to accommodate the workers on the job. which required 8000 tons of mechanical equipment.

Trade Unions Against Hitler.—Private reports received in London say that the German Trade Unions held a secret meeting in Berlin on April 30 and approved an appeal to be spread illegally among German workers calling upon them to unite to end the war. The appeal declared: “There is only one way—to stand together to destroy Hitler."—London, May 9.