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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1949
Page
7
Sydney and Newcastle endure industry shutdowns as coal supplies dwindle leaving 200000 workers idle. 23000 miners threaten a general strike next Monday unless a 35 hour week and a 30 shilling raise are granted. current pay runs from £8 to £10 10s weekly.
An 18-year-old boy, Charles Owens, confessed to police that he accidentally killed his eight-year-old brother Preston on November 20, 1942, while demonstrating firearms and imagining Germans. He is jailed without charge, with a preliminary hearing likely on involuntary manslaughter.
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