BIG ONE-DAY STRIKES
AUSTRALIAN DECISIONS. (Rec. 12.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 24. Twenty thousand metropolitan ironworkers will stop work for 24 liours on December 4 to support the Newcastle and Port Kembla steel strikers. The following day 35,000 building workers will stop, wofk for 24 hours to discuss the establishment of employment centres, improved conditions and wages. *■ Union leaders see no early end to the disputes which are strangling Australian heavy industries. Much will depend in the next few days on the arrangements being made for feeding the idle army, estimated at 16,000. The Port Kembla men have been idle for nine weeks and the Newcastle men for four weeks. Nine mines were idle yesterday over tlie Broken Hill Proprietary issue and four others stopped for other reasons. The coal loss for the week is 66,000 tons, compared with 24,000 tons last week. Victoria’s coal position is so grave that a major shut-down of industry before the end of the year appears almost inevitable. •
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 306, 24 November 1945, Page 5
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