Coal Shortage Causing Unemployment
(Rec. 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 10. The restricted transport because of the coal shortage is causing unemployment in other industries, particularly house building, and is threatening unemployment in others. About 200 employees of the , Public Works Department, who had been working on the construction of homes for the Housing Commission, have been dismissed because of the shortage of housing materials. The department expects to dismiss another 250 men next week and another 1550 within the next mouth.. Five hundred road transport employees and thousands of timber workers may lose their jobs. The Transport Workers’ Union has urged the State Government to co-ordinate all rail and road transport to save the men’s jobs.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1946, Page 5
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