POWER FOR MELBOURNE
YALLOURN STRIKE SETTLED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, December 29. (Received December 20, at 10 a.m.) The Yallourn strike has been settled. The men have resumed work pending consideration of certain points in the dispute by the Arbitration Court. Many firms using electricity which intended closing to-morrow will now be able to carry on. [On November 29 the coal workers at Yallourn went on strike. They objected to the new working conditions providing for a forty-eight-hour week, introduced under the revision of their award made recently by the Arbitration Court The action of the men cut off all supplies of brown \ coal used at the powerhouse. The total number of the employees at Yallourn is 1,550, of whom 1,100 were affected.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19436, 20 December 1926, Page 5
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123POWER FOR MELBOURNE Evening Star, Issue 19436, 20 December 1926, Page 5
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