STRIKE AT IRON WORKS.
FOUR THOUSAND MEN IDLE.
EXTENSION POSSIBLE. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Friday, 11.20 p m. SYDNEY, Feb. 7. The strike at the Port Kembla iron and steel works has assumed serious proportions, and at least 4000 men are idle, including the employees of the colliery which supplies coal to the steel works; also the railway employees of the private line which conveys raw materials from the Government railways. The strike is having a bad effect on local business, chiefly Woollongong, the Mayor of which is endeavouring to induce the Government to bring about a conference of the parties. The steel works, prior to me strike, was working at high pressure on overseas contracts, and the -stoppage of work will mean a heavy josm to Australian Iron and Steel, Ltd,,, and wit also indirectly affect the operations )t the Broken Hill Proprietary Company’s huge works at Newcastle.
If the strike extends to the power house employees at Port Kern bin. as is thought likely, several important crast al towns, including Wollongong, will be left without power and light.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 February 1936, Page 8
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