MINERS WARNED: STRIKES MAY END RULE BY LABOUR
SYDNEY, April 5.
The Federal Minister of Supply and Shipping, Senator W. P. Ashley, told a meeting of miners at Cessnock that unnecessary coal strikes could wreck tha Chifley Government.
“I am deeply concerned at the likelihood that the shortage of coal this winter will cause dire necessity among the people,” he said. “Attacks on tha Government by the press and the Opposition leader, Mr. R. G. Menzies, will have only a small effect on the next elections in comparison with the effect of coal strikes.” He told the miners that the chairman of the Coal Board, Mr. K. A. Cameron, and Mr L. Haylen, M.P., were touring coalfields to find out the reasons for trivial stoppages. The coal strike of 1940 was responsible for the defeat of the Menzies Government and the same could happen again. There was evidence that Communists were stopping the production of coal and steel for political ends.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 7
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