GENERAL STRIKE
THREAT IN AUSTRALIA COALMINERS’ ULTIMATUM Sydney, Nov. 28. A nation-wide battle between militant unions and the Federal Government is developing from the steel strikes at Newcastle and Port Kembla. Following Mr Chifley’s rejection of the northern miners’ management board’s ultimatum threatening a general coal strike unless he intervened in the steel strike, representatives of three Labour Councils and 23 unions have backed up the miners’ demand for Federal Government intervention.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 29 November 1945, Page 5
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72GENERAL STRIKE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 29 November 1945, Page 5
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