OPEN-CUT COAL MINES IN AUSTRALIA MAY GET INDUSTRY ON ITS FEET
(N.Z.P.A.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 22 (Recd. 10pm).— Federal and New South Wales Governments have estimated they will be able to obtain 120,000 tons of coal a week by working open-cut mines in New- South Wales three shifts a day on seven days a week. This would enable New South Wales industries to be reopened on the pre-strike consumption. Coal miners in Tasmania decided today to go back to work on Monday. There are 25C to 300 miners in Tasmania. The acting-Premier, Mr. Fagan, said the State Coal Reference Board would be called together to consider the Tasmanian miners’ claims. The A.C.T.U. has asked the Combined Mining Unions Council for another meeting next Wednesday in an effort to settle the strike. Between now and November, South Australia hopes to get seven coal cargoes from South Africa, totalling 56,000 tc/s. The coal will be used as a reserve i. the strike ends.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 23 July 1949, Page 5
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