EMERGENCY IN RHODESIA
Railway Strike And Coal Shortage
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) SALISBURY, June 5. The Government of Southern Rhodesia tonight proclaimed a state of emergency following a strike by railwaymen and a national coal shortage. Mr C. R. Taylor, leader of the Salisbury railway firemen who stopped work yesterday, was arrested under the Emergency Regulations. All but two of 125 firemen stopped work to support waga demands of from £2 to £7 10s more a month in spite of warnings that strikes are illegal under the Industrial Conciliation and Railways Act Only the essential services are expected to get coal. The Emergency Regulations said any worker who refused to continue working would be guilty of an offence punishable by imprisonment for one month.
Taylor has been declared an undesirable immigrant and will be deported, it was announced tonight. Taylor joined the Rhodesian Railways from Britain in May last year. The strike has now covered Northern and Southern Rhodesia and rail traffic is virtually at a standstill.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27369, 7 June 1954, Page 9
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