HITCH AT LYSAGHTS

Evening Star, Issue 25684, 7 January 1946, Page 4

HITCH AT LYSAGHTS

MEN ORDERED NOT TO RETURN (Rec. 11.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 6. ; The coal miners and steel workers will be back at work to-day—the miners after 16 days’ holidays and the steel workers after the settlement of their 15 weeks’ strike. The mines were prepared at the week-end for resumption of work this morning and reports from holiday resorts in the Newcastle area indicate that nearly all the mine workers had left for the coalfields to prepare for resumption, on the morning shift to-day. All steel works, except Lysaghts Proprietary Limited, are expected to resume at Newcastle and Port Kembla to-day. About 900 steel workers have been instructed by their union leaders not to report for work at the plants of Lysaghts because the management had decided to engage them as new employees. The union leaders said this would mean that the men. would lose their long-sendee privileges. There may also be a delay at the Broken Hill Proprietary works at Newcastle unless a Greek steamer is moved from the iron-ore unloading berth or the crew make it possible for the iron ore cargo to be unloaded. The crew of the steamer Theolfano Livanos have been on strike for the past- 10 weeks. They are now demanding pay plus overtime money for the period they have been on strike. The Greek steamer is one of 12 vessels in Newcastle harbour with cargoes totalling about 90.000 tons of iron ore for the Broken Hill Proprietary works. The other vessels cannot discharge their cargoes until the Greek steamer is moved from the berth.