UNREST IN AUSTRALIA
20.000 PEOPLE IDLE CABINET CONSIDER THE THE POSITION Recd. 7.35 p.m. Sydney, Nov. 12, A War Cabinet meeting, being held in Melbourne to-day, is expected to discuss the desirability of Commonwealth intervention indisputes in New South Wales and South Australia to prevent.a dislocation of essential services, aKd check unemployment. About 20,000 are idle in New South Wales to-day. The Broken Hill Proprietary dispute at Newcastle continues to hold up transport of coal !.• southern Slates. In Adelaide people went to work to-day in cars, carts, on horseback, on bikes and on fool, and, in at least one case, on skates. All buses and trains ceased running at midnight in support of the tramwaymen’s strike, which is now in its 13th day. Hundreds walked long distance? to the ci:* nnd work a* factories and business es’nhlfshmen'is was dislocated.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 268, 13 November 1945, Page 5
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