Support For The Stand Governments Have Taken On Strike

Wanganui Chronicle, 25 July 1949, Page 5

Support For The Stand Governments Have Taken On Strike

SYDNEY, July 24 (Recd. 12.10a.m). -Several meetings held in Sydney and in coalfield centres today passed resolutions supporting the New South Wales and Federal Governments for the stand they had taken in handling the coal strike. A fight developed at Marrickville, a Sydney suburb oval, when a Communist in a crowd called a .soldier “a soldier scab.” Before the police broke up the fight about 14 Communists had bloody noses and were lleeing from the park. At Cessnock. the State A.L.P. Electoral Council decided to call on the mineworkers to “clean out the union leaders who misled the men ii*to this political strike and prevented the benefits of arbitration.” It was pointed out that without expansion open-cut mines would produce 4,000,000 tons of coal a year, or about half as much as the underground mines were expected to produce a year, and if the strike continued the open cuts would be extended to such an extent that thousands of miners might lose their jobs.