MINERS FINE STRIKERS
UNPRECEDENTED ACTION SYDNEY, April 28. Fifteen wheelers who ceased production at the Stockrington colliery, Newcastle, last Thursday were arraigned before the Northern Miners’ Board of management and fined £3 each. This unprecedented action in the New South Wales coalfields is the first uuus of the miners’ decision to take action to eliminate unauthorised stoppages. The men walked off after the miners’ lodge concerned had decided to resume work. The cause of this action was the refusal of a wheeler to use a horse which, he claimed was an unsatisfactory worker. By continuing the stoppage the wheelers caused all the employee* at the mine to lose special holiday pay for working on Anzac Day.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22624, 29 April 1948, Page 5
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