AUSTRALIAN NEWS
COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE AN ABORTIVE CONFERENCE SYDNEY, Oct. 20. No results were achieved from the compulsory coal conference. It seems likely that the engine drivers will not immediately implement the general strike threat. It is expected, however, that in an attempt to obtain the 40-hour week they will use the tactics of limiting production by holding stop-work meetings on a midweek day each week. A compulsory conference was convened by the judge, Mr Justice Drake Brockman, of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, to discuss the threatened strike by engine drivers in the mining industry.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23945, 21 October 1939, Page 11
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