COAL STRIKE THREAT
NEW ZEALAND AID SOUGHT AUSTRALIAN REQUEST The threat of a coal strike throughout Australia, in an attempt to gain for the miners such improved conditions as' a 30-hour week, has had lepercussions among mining unions in New Zealand. A request has been made, it is understood, to New Zealand miners to give an undertaking that if the strike is declared they will not permit coal hewn in the Dominion to be sent to Australia. New Zealand is by far the nearest coal-producing country to Australia, and is considered to be the only economically feasible source of supply for it if outside coal is needed. Dominion delegates have been invited to, and will attend, a conference of mining unionists in Australia early next month and the request will then be discussed. It is possible, also, that New Zealand miners may assist the striker with a wages levy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 12
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149COAL STRIKE THREAT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 12
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