MINING HOLD-UP
POSITION IN NEW SOUTH WALES USE OF FREE LABOUR NOT LEGAL (Rec. November 3, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, November 3. The possibility of the State Government endeavouring to work some of .the collieries in the event of the failure of Thursday’s conference and the using of free labour if necessary, is' said to have been eliminated unless legislative authority is first obtained, as the Lang Government \n 1925, in order to keep free labour out of the mines on the ground that inexperienced men were a source of danger, enacted that only skilled miners with at least two years’ experience be permitted to work the coal faces. The Miners’ Federation would not be likely to respond to a call by the Government in. the present crisis, but there is a chance that if the matter is put to the test, former mine workers might come forward. There are many of these in the State, who were forced out of employment when the two large Cessnock mines closed two years ago. -
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 34, 4 November 1929, Page 11
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