CRUSHING DEFEAT
MILITANT MINERS SEAMEN’S STRIKE COLLAPSE NOW BELIEVED INEVITABLE (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 9th Jauuarv, 11.5 a.m.) SYDNEY This Day. The early results of the voting at miners’ aggregate meetings revealed overwhelming majorities against a general stoppage of tlie coal mines. Of the seven fields from which returns are available six voted very solidly against the strike, while Wontliaggi, in Victoria, voted equally solidly in favour of the, strike. The completed voting of the miners was 5781) against the strike and IIG7 in favour. The crushing defeat of the militants came as a complete sur* prise in union circles and in the opim ion of the leaders the collapse of the seamen’s strike is now inevitable. The secretary of the Sydney Sca= men’s Strike Committee, Air J. Kcen= an, said : “While naturally disappoint= ed at the result of the aggregate meetings tlie seamen will fight on to the bitter end.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 9 January 1936, Page 5
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