PEACE ON HOME FRONT
AUSTRALIAN STRIKE OVER STEELWORKERS RESUME TO-DAY SYDNEY, January 6. The striking Newcastle and Port Kembla steelworkers have decided to return to work. The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission, in a judgment given yesterday, granted the Federated Ironworkers’ Asso-' ciation registration as a union. At midnight to-night all electricity and gas rationing will end, after having paralysed industry and disrupted home life in New South Wales for 32 days. Although the 13,000 striking steelworkers have decided 1 to return to work at Port Kembla and Newcastle, steel and associated works are expected to take up to a month to re-employ them and the 13,000 other workers thrown idle in these places through shortage of materials. Only about 225,000 of the 500,000 put out of work in New South Wales hy the power rationing expect to resume work to-morrow, and 50,000 workers- will Temain idle until March. A mass meeting- of the Newcastle steel workers unanimously decided yesterday on the resumption of woTk. This decision was confirmed by a similar one, at Port Kembla. The Port Kembla strike had lasted for 15 weeks and the Newcastle strike for about 10 weeks.
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Evening Star, Issue 25684, 7 January 1946, Page 4
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194PEACE ON HOME FRONT Evening Star, Issue 25684, 7 January 1946, Page 4
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