COAL INDUSTRY BILL
AUSTRALIAN MINERS’ ATTITUDE
(Rec. 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 14. Because the Miners’ Federation has been excluded from direct representation on the Joint Coal Board which is to take charge of the industry, the central council of the federation has decided to reserve the right of independent policy in regard to any of the board’s decisions.
“We are opposed to, and will resist power being provided for the board to remove federation members from the industry,” reads part of a resolution carried by the council. The council accepts the Coal Bill as the best method yet introduced to bring the industry into line with the expanding national economy*. Three important miners’ lodges near Newcastle have decided to resist disciplinary summonses and lay three mines idle until summonses against two miners are withdrawn. The offences with which the men are charged under the Coalmines Regulations Act are alleged by the miners to be examples of pinpricking by the owners.
The total production loss for to-day is 12,100 tons, with 12 mines idle.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24954, 15 August 1946, Page 5
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