COAL WANTED TO MAKE XMAS “WHITE”
SYDNEY DEMONSTRATION BANNERS ANd THOSE CARRYING THEM JEERED AT. Recd. 11 p.m. Sydney, Dec. 19. Eighteen persons were arrested during a lunch-hour demonstration in Sydney to-day by about one hundred men and women who demanded that the “Broken Hill Proprietary coal be released to give the kids a white Christmas.” Buses filled with home-coming soldiers jeered at the demonstrators and civilians outside the Town Hall kicked the banners they were carrying. Three servicemen and one girl were among those arrested. The demonstrators raised banners with the words: “No need for gas restrictions!” “Release B.H.P. coal!” “End the 9 p.m. curfew!” “Give the kids a white Christmas!” Some heated arguments developed between pedestrians and the demonstrators before the polio® arrived and made the arrests, 'ine demonstrators agued that while they were on the dole the B.H.P. had 200,000 tons of coal available. During the strike miners’ officials claimed that the B.H.P. had 200,000 tons of coal in stock, which could be made available to industry, but Mr. Cahill stated that this coal was not suitable for gas making, or the generation of electricity.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 300, 20 December 1945, Page 5
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188COAL WANTED TO MAKE XMAS “WHITE” Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 300, 20 December 1945, Page 5
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