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Rail Ban Call
Ignored
BRISBANE, July 17.
Queensland's three major
railway unions have de-<*>
cided to ignore the ARU"
call on them to accept the ban
'
on tbe handling t)f coal.
They are tbe Australian
Federated Union of Locomotive
Enginemen, tbe Guards,
Shunters and Conductors'
Union, and the Railway Main
tenance Union.
A special meeting of Brisbane
ARU members today endorsed
a State council decision to re-:
fuse to haul-coal in trucks from
the mines.
The ARU State president
(Mr. M. O'Brien) said that tbe
black ban did not apply to coal
already in railway stockpiles,
i Coal affected was that at pit
heads, in bins or at grass at tbe
mines. i
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