“Beer Strikes” Ruin Miners' Christmas
SYDNEY, December 25,
In spite of ever-increasing prices, war troubles, and the costing of substantial budget taxes after the holidays, Australians went about their Christmas shopping as though everything was normal. Reports show that shopping crowds in the big cities were just as dense as ever. Post offices were besieged and all forms of transport were fully booked for holiday traffic.
The only discomforted people are on the coalfields, where beer strikes against higher prices are in progress. It is estimated that 12,000 miners on the southern fields will go without their Christmas beer as a result of a union embargo on local hotels. Some miners thought to circumvent the embargo by employing taxi-cabs to take supplies to their homes, but the news leaked out, and union officials warned taximen they would be declared “black” if they persisted in “clandestine tactics.”
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Northern Advocate, 26 December 1940, Page 7
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