PIG IRON FOR JAPAN
MORE TROUBLE BREWING WHARF WORKERS' BAN GOVERNMENT UNSYMPATHETIC SYDNEY, Feb. 15 More trouble is brewing over pig iron at Port Kembla, where the steamer Tymeric is due to load the remainder of the 21,000 tons left by the Dalfram. The local wharf labourers were hoping that the Federal Government would have placed a ban on the export of pig iron in accordance with the promise made by the Attorney-General, Mr. It. G. Menzies. However, the Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, last night stated that no such course is practicable. The Cabinet rejected the request of the waterside workers to restrict the export of iron to Japan. The decision was based partly on information that the export of pig iron will not prejudice Australian industries and partly on the ground that to impose the embargo because Japan is at war might be considered a provocative act.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 13
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