KING’S BIRTHDAY HOLIDAY
N.S.W. MINERS ORDERED TO WORK „ SYDNEY, June 12. To safeguard the employment of thousands of workers, the Joint Coal Board has ordered all New South Wales collieries to work on the Kings Birthday holiday on Monday. The coal shortage is so acute that a complete stoppage of supplies for even one day would almost paralyse industry and transport. The average daily production in New South Wales mines is 50,000 tons. Mine employees will receive special, rates of pay, about double time and a half, for work on Monday. The central executive committee of the Miners’ Federation has appealed to members to work on the holiday “in the interests of hundreds of workers who are threatened with unemployment because of the continued coal crisis.” New South Wales rail services have already been reduced and the Victorian services may be cut next week. Though, according to the Davidson report on the coal industry. Australia needs 12,000.000 tons of New South Wales coal a year for essential nurposes, production this year is not likely to reach 11.000.000 tons. In the fiveyear period ended 1946. production reached the 12,000.000-ton figure in onlv one year and the deficit was 3,750,000 tons.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25209, 13 June 1947, Page 7
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