Menzies On Australian Miners’ Strike Threat
SYDNEY, February 9. The Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) commenting on the likelihood of a strike, said today: “If the coalmining unions perpetrate the folly of a widespread strike, the issue facing the people will be whether they are on the side of the legallyconstituted tribunal or on the side of lawlessness. “I have no doubt where the people will stand, and what their answer will be.” A representative of the colliery proprietors declared their patience is exhausted. He added: “There can be no further concessions. Fight to Finish “The Arbitration Court, to which we are bound and whose decisions we respect, recently gave the miners many benefits, and imposed additional burdens on the coal proprietors. “We cannot be coerced by the employees. “We shall fight to a finish.” Official records before the Arbitration Court reveal that the average earnings of Australian miners are between £8 and £9 a week, compared with £2 11/6 a week earned by British miners.
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Northern Advocate, 10 February 1940, Page 5
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