MINERS’ GIBES AT MINISTER ON PENSIONS
(11 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 6. When the Minister of Fuel and Shipping, Scnaitor W. P. Ashley, addressed a meeting of miners at Kurri there were many lively and bitter interjections. A pensioner told Senator Ashley: “If any worker Votes for the Labour Government at the next election he is a glutton for punishment. Another man said: “You don’t seem to know the workers as—well as their backs. What we get in pensions would not feed a greyhound.” Senator Ashley said that coal shortages were holding up the construction of workers’ homes and that anyone who stopped work Unnecessarily was hurting the working class. The Coal Board could not be expected to do in two years what direct action had failed to accomplish in 25. As part of its drive for Increased coal production, the Federal Government is publishing fullpage advertisements in the northern coalfields newspapers. Headed “Millions down the Drain for Little Gain,” one tells the miners that most of their stoppages in the last 18 months had: little justification and-were against the policy of the Miners* Federation and cost the miners themselves over £2,000,000.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 7
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