SHORTENING HANDS.
KE!¥1BLA STEEL WORKS. SYDNEY, April 6. Five hundred workers at the huge Port Kembla iron and steel works have received notices of dismissal. Scores of miners employed at the local collieries have been reduced to half-lime. it is stated that the reason for the retrenchment is the cancellation of orders for steel girders owing to the slackness prevalent in the building trade and to the suspension of railway contracts at Woollongong and Port Kembla. The industry has received a severe setback. The workers and their families are in a panic.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17990, 8 April 1930, Page 3
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