PORT KEMBLA STRIKE BECOMES SERIOUS
4000 MEN ARE NOW IDLE
(Received 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 7,
The strike at the Port Kembla iron and steel works has assumed serious proportions. At least 4000 men are idle, including employees in the collieries which supply coal to the works, also railway employees on the private line by which raw materials are conveyed from the Government railways.
The strike is having a bad effect on local business people, chiefly the Woollongong, the mayor of which town is endeavouring to induce the Government to bring about a conference of the parties.
The steel prior to the strike, were working at high pressure on overseas contracts and the stoppage of work will mean a heavy loss to Australian Iron and Steel Ltd. Also it will indirectly affect the Broken Hill Proprietary Company’s huge works at Newcastle. If the strike extends to the power house employees at Port Kembla, as is thought likely, several important coastal towns, including Woollongong, will be left without power and light.
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Northern Advocate, 8 February 1936, Page 5
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