AUSTRALIAN LABOUR
PROTRACTED COAL DISPUTE. SHIPPING SERVICES AFFECTED. (Pree* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, May 31. Owing to the shortage of coal the interstate passenger steamers Katoomba and Zealandia will be laid up when they reach Sydney. The Queensland passenger services will be continued on a limited scale, the steamers being able to. secure bunkers at Brisbane. Additional cargo steamers are also being laid up. There is no "apparent prospect of an early settlement of the coal trouble. Both sides are standing firm. The Miners’ Delegate Board meets tomorrow, and the Engine Drivers’ executive is to meet daily till the dispute ends. FORTY-FOUR HOURS STRIKERS RESUME. SYDNEY, May 31 (Received May 31, at 9 p.m.) All the 44-hours strikers resumed work to-day. THE WORKING WEEK. MELBOURNE, May 31. (Received May 31, at 8.30 p.m.) Representatives of all the Labour Councils in Australia to-day commenced the consideration of the 44-hours week as it affects the whole of the Commonwealth.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19804, 1 June 1926, Page 9
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