STEELWORKS AT NEWCASTLE
COAL SHORTAGE MAY CAUSE STOPPAGE RESULT OF DISPUTE AT MINES SYDNEY. February 17. The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr F. H. Gallagher) has intervened in' the dispute which threatens to close the entire Broken Hill Proprietary steelworks at Newcastle by the week-end. Three coal mines are idle because of a dispute over one locomotive driver, and the company has not sufficient coal to keep the steelworks going. Any" hitch at this stage will seriously cripple building programmes in Australia and New Zealand, and will directly affect the employment of 210,000 people, including 55.000 working in New South Wales industries. Because of the steel crisis the Joint Coal Board is expected to meet to-day to consider the rationing of coal to ail consumers. At present supplies to Sydney are barely keeping industry moving. The Bunnerong power station, which is Sydney’s main source of supply for commercial and domestic electricity, is scraping the bottoms of its bunkers, and gas companies are working on dav-to-day deliveries.. The Coal Board says that all it can dq at present is to give the Broken Hill Proprietary at Newcastle sufficient coal to enable it to close down the plant with the least possible damage.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25732, 18 February 1949, Page 7
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