ENGINEERS ON STRIKE
AUSTRALIAN MINES IDLE.
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SYDNEY. November 2
More than a. dozen northern collieries were idle to-day’ through a strike by 300 members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, who are demanding a 40-hour week. The men involved are those employed in power-houses and the maintenance of mine machinery.
The stoppage is receiving the consideration of the combined mining unions in Sydney to-day.
A TEMPORARY RESUMPTION?
SYDNEY, November 2
The secretary of the combined miners, Mr. Nelson, announced that the dispute of the engineers is being endorsed by the. combined unions, but the Commonwealth Council would be askec] to suspend the stoppage meantime, until the 40-hour week demands are fully’ worked out. Thus work would Im meantime resumed. Unionists on the northern coalfields said that the strikers were not. likely to accept the recommendation to return to work, unless more cogent reasons than a desire for time were supplied.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 November 1939, Page 5
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