BROKEN HILL DISPUTE
Strike Makes 3100 Idle (HZ. Press Assn.— Copyright) NEWCASTLE. June 25. Production has stopped at the big Broken Hill Proprietary Company. Ltd. steel works because of a strike by traffic department workers More than 3000 production men have been thrown idle at B H.P.. and another 400 at the steel-tubing plant of Stewart and Llovds Pty.. Ltd. This morning traffic men reported for work at B.H.P but a number were immediately suspended for having taken part in a stoppage on Sunday. After the suspensions, the rest of the shift walked out. leaving the plant without 100 key traffic men—locomotive drivers and shunters—for the third successive day. The dispute began on Saturday when traffic men walked off the job after the company suspended a traffic department employee for allegedly “going slow.” Union officials claimed the man was working to regulations. The strike also involves Amalgamated Engineering Union members in the diesel shop, and iron-workers who have refused to refuel locomotives or handle material that has been moved by staff men
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29858, 26 June 1962, Page 11
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