PIG-IRON DISPUTE
Threat To Extend Trouble
SYDNEY, January 13.
The unions involved in the Port Kembla pig-iron dispute are very dissatisfied with the visit yesterday of tlie Attorney-General, Mr. R. G. Menzies, and threaten to extend the trouble by compelling the withdrawal of all labour from the Port Kembla steelworks till an amicable settlement is reached. A conference of union leaders will probably decide this issue by the weekend.
Mr. Menzies, who has gone to Newcastle, has offered to discuss the dispute with union officials at Wollongong on Wednesday.
Mr. Menzies received a hostile reception at Wollongong on his visit to discuss the pig-iron dispute. He promised union officials that if the Port Kembla waterside workers loaded 20,000 tons of pig-iron for Japan the Government would review its policy regarding pig-iron exports’ to aggressor nations and consider the withdrawal of licences.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 9
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