VICTORIAN RAIL PROTEST STRIKE ON ANTI-RED BILL
MELBOURNE, June 3.
No trains will run in Victoria for 24 hours from midnight on Sunday. The State executive of the Australian Railways Union has ordered the stoppage as a protest against the Federal Government’s anti-Communist Bill. The executive called the stoppage after mass meetings had rejected the union’s move for a protest strike and after declarations by the Australian Council of Trades Union that it could not be condoned. Four other militant-controlled unions —butchers, builders, seamen and painters and dockers —have already ordered their members not to work on Monday. Whether the trams will run on Monday will depend on mass meetings of tramwaymen tomorrow. The A.C.T.U. executive has ruled that the action on the anti-Communist Bill should be political rather than industrial.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23271, 5 June 1950, Page 5
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