N.S.W. COAL MINES
ENGINEERS’ STRIKE CONTINUES
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SYDNEY, November 3
Nearly all the coal mines in the northern field of New South Wales were idle again to-day owing- to the strike of the engine men. The stoppage is involving 15,000 employees. The 300 mine engineers on strike have refused to obey their executive and return to work. The miners’ officials have gone to Melbourne to-night to obtain the intervention of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court. The forty-hour week is the issue.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 November 1939, Page 8
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