Stand Williams, secretry of the Federated Engine Drivers, declared to the then-Premier of Victoria Rupert Hamer: "The fact is that we're not going to build it at Newport, and that's final." After a temporary retreat, the government attempted to restart the project, but the unions voted to reaffirm the ban.
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A compromise was agreed by the trade union bureaucracy that a panel led by Sir Louis Matheson would investigate the proposed plant.
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The final major generator of electricity was the Victorian Railways who operated the Newport Power Station, for the supply of electricity to Melbourne's suburban trains.