N.S.W. STRIKES

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23315, 26 September 1945, Page 6

N.S.W. STRIKES

Six Industries Affected (8.30 p.m.) _ SYDNEY, Sept. 25. Approximately 17,000 workers are idle in New South Wales to-day on disputes in six industries covering coal, meat, shipping, printing, steel and electric power. Three thousand miners are idle at 12 mines for the loss of nearly 10.000 tons of coal. About four thousand commercial printers are idle in Sydney and Newcastle. Six thousand steel and ironworkers are on strike at Port Kembla. The Bunnerong power, houses' strikers number 600.. Waterside workers refusing to work number 2000, and 1400 men are involved in a stoppage at the Riverstone Meatworks. About half of the wharf labourers in Sydney resumed to-day, but a dispute over the use of mechanical loading equipment kept the overseas section idle. Eighteen overseas vessels were without labour. No labour was called for the Dutch steamers involved in the Indonesian independence dispute. Nearly all of the Sydney suburban area, including the industrial districts, was blacked out this morning when dangerous overloading threatened at the Bunnerong power station. Tens of thousands of factory workers were affected for periods ranging up to 65 minutes.