FINANCIAL CATASTROPHE
VICTORIAN RAILWAYS. MOTOR COMPETITION' SERIOUS. Pros s Am soc iati o 11 —(lopyr igh t. (Rcx'oiivcd 10 .‘SO am.) MELBOURNE, Tliis Bay. Speaking at WaiTiiambool in regard. to railway retrenchment, the Premier, Mr Hogan, said the Railway Department and the Glovernrnent’s closer settlement activities,_ had become financial catmstropliies. The State was losing ai million sterling on these activities. Motor competition was a serious thing for the railways. The Trades Hall council, decided to seek a. conference with, the Parliamentary Union, to hold stop work meetings till all the men dismissed were; rcinstaod. There is much opposition in union circles fo. the retrenchment proposals.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 82, 4 February 1928, Page 5
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