Miners’ Board Takes Red Line
SYDNEY, Fri. (Noon)—Rejection by the Northern Miners' Management Board of a motion by lodge representative. that aggregate meetings should be held, m..rks the first occasion in Australia that a management board has rejected a decision by a body directly representing miners’ lodges. Officials said afterwards that the Communist line taken by the management board could be accepted as an indication of the treatment which conference representations would receive from the central council of the Miners’ Federation. The strike, which is nearing the end of its sixth week, has caused a loss of £29,000,000 in wages and £87,000,000 in goods not produced. Detailed production losses are: Coal. 1,450,000 tons; steel, 145,000 tons: pig iron, 116.000 tons; houses, 2320; bricks, 41.000.000; tiles, 3.500,000; stoves. 4600; refrigerators, 5800. Over £1,000,000 has been paid out in unemployment relief.
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Northern Advocate, 5 August 1949, Page 5
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139Miners’ Board Takes Red Line Northern Advocate, 5 August 1949, Page 5
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