PROPOSED STRIKE
NEW SOUTH WALES WORKERS DIVISION OF OPINION SYDNEY, Sept. 15 Aggregate meetings of miners held yesterday at all centres indicated a division of opinion among the men concerning the advisability of adopt'ng the recommendation of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation for a general strike: as a protest against the reduction of the basic wage. Generally speaking the result of the voting was against the strike proposal. An outstanding feature of the meetings almost everywhere was the great numbers of miners, many of them unemployed, who refrained from voting. At Cessnock the vote in favour of striking was 6"j7 to 124. West Wallsend supported the strike by 154 votes to 10, and at. Lithgow by a small majority a similar decis ; on was reached.
At Kurri, ancl in the lower fields around Newcastle, as well as on the South Coast, the strike plan was rejected by big majorities. Woonona voted 750 to 250 against, the strike, and Wallsend 294 to 7 against.
A meeting of 5000 railway and tramway employees in the Sydney Town Hall carriod a motion protesting against the basic wage reductions, and decided to launch a campaign effectively to combat attacks mado on wages.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21289, 16 September 1932, Page 11
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