MELBOURNE'S PLIGHT
MAY BE WITHOUT POWER,
(Received 30th November, 10 v.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day
Eight hundred employees of the State Electricity Commission at Yallourn struck, demanding a 44 hours week. They state that they will not return to work xuitil their demands arc conceded.
The Yallourn strikers are coal workers who object to new working conditions providing for a 48-hour week, introduced under a revision of thoir award made recently by the Arbitration Court. The action, of the men. cut off all supplies of brown coal. If the strike lasts for an extended period it will mean that the power-house will be forced to close. This will mean a shortage of current for the metropolis and throughout the State, and the briquetting plant, which supplies a large portion of the industrial and domestic fuel of Melbourne, will cease immediately. The total number of employees at Yallourn is 1550, of which 1100 are affected.
The Commission has 'begun arrangements for emergency supplies for the city if the strike lasts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1926, Page 9
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