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'AUSTRALIAN COAL STRIKE OTHER WORKERS SUFFER \ TRAIN SERVICES CURTAILED SYDNEY, March 28 Two hundred more men have been dismissed from the Broken Hill Proprietary's steel works at Newcastle as the. result of the coal strike. Because the railways have only a few weeks' supply of coal, the train services in ,Victoria have been curtailed. Suburban services are reduced by half, except in peak periods. The Saturday and Sunday expresses to Adelaide have been cancelled. Some poorly patronised services in Queensland haVe been cancelled and others curtailed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23617, 29 March 1940, Page 8
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88SERIOUS EFFECTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23617, 29 March 1940, Page 8
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