MANY IDLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 228, 26 September 1945, Page 5

MANY IDLE

STRIKES IN N.S.W. SIX INDUSTRIES ARE INVOLVED COAL, MEAT, SHIPPING, STEEL, PRINTING AND POWER Recd. 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 lor the loss of nearly 10,000 tors of coal. About 4000 commercial printers are idle in Sydney and Newcastle. Six thousand steel and iron-workers are on strike at Port Kembla. The Bunnerong Power-house strikers numoer 600. Waterside workers, refusing to work number 2000 and 1400 men are involved in a stoppage at the Riverstone Meat Works. About half 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 labotf was called for Dutch steamers involved in the Indonesian independence dispute. Nearly all of the Sydney suburban area, including industrial districts, was blacked out this morning, when dangerous overloading threatened at the Buni lerongpower station. Tens ot thousands of factory workers were affected for periods ranging un to 65 minutes.