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USTRALIAN STRIKES

widespread Unemployment I Caused

UNIONS SEEK AID OF PRIME MINISTER

I r t| <N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) I P ,in ’) SYDNEY, December 4, Iwith all mines Idle to-day. New South Wales industry is dg gravely dislocated than for many years. Already the steel lute has thrown 36,000 persons out of work, and unless ther« ft early settlement 500,000 others will be affected ti To-day s stoppage on the coalfields is so complete that even imines whose employees are not members of the Miners’ ion are on strike.

I The Prime Minister of Australia (Mr Chifley) has agreed to |kve to-morrow afternoon a union delegation, which will ask |to c mi a conference to settle the steel, coal, and shipping |es. The decision to approach the Prime Minister was made | meeting between the Australian Council of Trade Unions Urgency committee and the New South Wales Labour Counii committee appointed to handle the steel strikes at Port a,bla and Newcastle.

Drastic cuts in all South Wales train services were ijunced to-day by the Railway Commissioner (Mr T. Hartii), Cancelled immediately are all special sporting and weekI (ourist trains. Country trains and goods traffic will be ally reduced, and Sydney s electric train services during the peak periods will run only at half-hourly intervals. The (e Government is planning to operate an emergency transt service in the metropolis if power for the tramways fails.

Erie 'immediate introduction of gas rationing in New South ges on a drastic scale, beginning a to-morrow, was recommended to MMinister of Labour and Industry BJ. J. Cahill) by the supply gtrities. Mr Cahill said that if Ssbad to be rationing, and it apSw inevitable, ample notice should

|>en to all employees. |ii learnt that proposals for rationas and electricity would mean a R more than 50 per cent, on existtonsumption.

Sinion at the "Trades Hall to-day 3divided on the prospects pf Mr ley reaching a solution of the steel, log, and shipping strikes at his Berra conference with union lead-ij-morrow. Official circles in Cana emphasised that Mr Chifley has |ehanged his policy of non-inter-ion and has made no promises. Kousands of iron workers to-day p the national council of their m and refused to take part in a sur stoppage—an indication that Sand file resentment at being inid in the turmoil by their leaders awing. gs Commonwealth Coal Commissi (Mr N, Mighell) said to-day Seven if the miners resumed work

Sorrow it would be impossible to essential services, “let alone

b secretary of the Metal Trades Boyers' Association (Mr McmW) said steel supplies would not m to nbimal until at least 12 [as after the strike ended, s rationing, which has been jnticed in Melbourne, is more -severe (that imposed' two months ago, [the Chief Secretary of Victoria Iff. Slater) said that without a e measure of public co-operation pplete cessation of gas supplies [occur.. (fere cuts in the railway services hj somewhat less drastic reduction [he tramway services are ■ being fed out in South Australia. It is

pated that the closing of industry Adelaide will mean unemployment jp.ooo men. r * Newcastle branch of the Iron- ?'• Association last night recomjg®i that the union should seek re||ratlon in the State Arbitration P- The union was de-registered S * the strikes at Port Kembla and giastle began. When these disputes I ■me Broken Hill Proprietary reg* fo negotiate with the union be--1 i it was de-registered. || w vessels are already tied up, i ill be tied up very soon by the | ?ns decision not to man ships 8 mg New South Wales coal or the § lets of the Broken Hill Proprie- | anti Australian Iron and Steel, | Many ether vessels will be held S i ports in all States, as stocks of ff coal become exhausted.

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Bibliographic details

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24741, 5 December 1945, Page 7

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USTRALIAN STRIKES Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24741, 5 December 1945, Page 7

USTRALIAN STRIKES Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24741, 5 December 1945, Page 7