THE COAL CRISIS.
AUSTRALIAN UPHEAVAL. THOUSANDS OF MEN IDLE. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright. SYDNEY, Tuesday. With no immediate prospect of settlement of the coal strike, there should be a great increase of unemployment in the next few days. All pit ponies have now been brought to the surface, and already 30,000 miners and 1000 engine-drivers and firemen are idle. Many other industries are also affected.—P.A. STEAMERS HELD UP. (Received Wednesday, 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. In addition to two .passenger steamers affected by the coal strike, twelve cargo steamers are laid up. In place of the. Dimboola, the Adelaide Steamship Co. is using the cargo motor ship Momba, which recently arrived in Australian waters. . Much importance is attached to the meeting of the Federal Council' of En-gine-drivers’ and Firemen’s Association to-morrow. —P.A.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 May 1926, Page 5
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