ALL NEXT MONTH
UNEMPLOYMENT MAY BE
HIGH
Rec. 12.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 21. Although more coal is likely to be produced this week than was originally estimated, the industrial authorities fear•that because of lack of stocks unemployment in New South Wales will be very great until the end of January at the earliest.
The coal miners begin their Christmas holidays this afternoon and will not return until January 7. By then, it is believed, the coal stocks will have been exhausted.
It is estimated that more than 500,000 persons lost their jobs when the coal
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 7
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