STRIKES CAUSE BIG LOSS IN WAGES
(Received 9.20 a.m.) SYDNEY ,Thi.s Day. The workers thronglijout the State, as a result of the timber strike and; Hie northern coalfields both of which have been in progress for six months,, have lost nearly £2,000,000 in wiges. TJic disputes! have thrown thirty thousand men out of employment, and unemployment relief is costing the Government £IO,OOO a week. The unions have collected £70,000 In levies.—Australian Press Ass flu
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 75, 1 August 1929, Page 5
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