SHIPPING STRIKE
HITS THE COAT.JMNKIIS
WILE STATE SHIPS INTERVENE?
(By Electric Cable— Copyright.: (Aiißt and N.fc. came Association
(Received July 22. 2 p.m.) Sydney, July 22
About 12,000 men engaged in the milling industry on the northern coalfields have boon thrown out of work as the result of the shipping holdup.
It is likely, unless the trouble is soon settled, that operations on all mining areas will be brought fo a complete standstill.
Respecting the proposal lor a State shipping sei vice to meet tin* trouble. Premier Lang says lie has had oilers oi numerous ships. He added that ample wharfage accommodation would be available to the State it needed. His Government was still in touch with the other .Labour Administrations throughout the Common wealth on the subject of .Stale-owned ships.
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 320, 22 July 1925, Page 8
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