MUNITIONS PROFITS REFUNDED
Australian Industries (Received November 23. 7 p.m. I SYDNEY. November 22. 'l’he .Minister of Munitions, Mr. Makin, revealed yesterday that certain large industrial firms bad voluntarily refunded to the Commonwealth more than £lOO.OOO of their profits from works carried out for the Defence Department. Mr. Makin commented that this was a healthy sign and expressed the hope that the example would be followed bv others imbued with a similar patriotic spirit. To make Australia self-sufficient in nitric acid and methanol, four factories costing £2.500.000 are to be built by Hie Federal Government. .Mr. Makin said the factories would be built near the Government explosive factories, two in Victoria, one in New South Wales, and one in South Australia.
About 120 men are taking part in a stay-in strike at the Wallarali Colliery in the Newcastle district. Provisions enough to last the men for 21 hours have already gone info the mine, and an organization has been established to keep up supplies. The strike is being held as a protest. against the operation of holiday penalty clauses in the coal mining award's by which the men allege they have been deprived of holiday pay.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 51, 24 November 1941, Page 8
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