WORKLESS ARMY
NEARLY 50,000 TO DATE.
9th August. The army of workless, doe either I directly or "indirectly to the strike, was estimated on the Bth at nearly 50,000. Railway employees 17,000 Newcastle miners and others ...... 13,000 (Southern miners 5,000 Maitland miners and others ■ 7,000 Lithgow miners and others 2.000 City and suburban workers 3,000 Total .■...■.,...„.,........■ 47 J .OOO
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 7
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59WORKLESS ARMY Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 7
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