STRIKERS' BOYCOTT
TRADESPEOPLE SUFFER MINERS' COMMUNAL SHOPS CHAOS IN VICTORIAN TOWN MODERATES TIRE OF DISPUTE By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright (Received May 17, 9.45 p.m.) MKLBOCRNE, May 17 The coalminers at Wonthaggi, 86 miles south-east of Melbourne, who have been on strike for same time, have organised communal services and are providing themselves with food and other necessities. The strikers are slaughtering their own meat and conducting butchers' and grocery shops, a hairdressing saloon and a boot-repairing depot. As the result the local tradespeople are suffering, and their employees arc losing their employment. This is having a boomerang effect on the union's financial resources. The shopkeepers now have declared the miners' activities "black." Matters are nearing a climax, as 900 miners, who arc moderates, arc demanding a special meeting to discuss a settlement. They say it is impossible to expect relief from tho union or from employees of outside trades whose employers arc experiencing a boycott.
Wonthaggi is the chief coalmining centre of Victoria, and tho properties include a Government mine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 9
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170STRIKERS' BOYCOTT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 9
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