SEVEN COLLIERIES IDLE
NEW SOUTH WALES-MINES
HEAVY LOSS OF PRODUCTION SYDNEY, May 22.
Mine workers at a large New South Wales colliery struck to-day because the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has issued summonses against two wheelers for allegedly ill-using pit horses. The men may not resume until the cases are dealt with, ppssibly in a fortnight’s time. The mine produces 1200 tons of coal a day. Seven collieries are idle in the State to-day, the total loss of coal being 8200 tons, the heaviest for any single day since V-E Day. Following unauthorised V-E stoppages, an appeal by the miners’ leaders to the men for ail-out production to shorten the Pacific- war had cut the strike losses drastically.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25852, 24 May 1945, Page 6
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122SEVEN COLLIERIES IDLE Otago Daily Times, Issue 25852, 24 May 1945, Page 6
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