AUSTRALIAN LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1926, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR.

THE 44-HOUR WEEK.

TROUBLE LIKELY TO SPREAD. OTHER DISPUTES IMMINENT. ißy Cable.—l'ress Association. —Copyright.) (Received 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Indications are that the 44-hours' trouble is spreading beyond its present limits. The building trade employees have called a meetng for next Saturday to discuss their attitude. A circular says the building trade employees have not vet obtained any definite form of organisation, and calls upon them to present a united front fighting on industrial lines. Representatives of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council have arrived in Sydney to discuss the 44-hour movement with the local disputes committee. This points to the possibility of Victoria becoming involved.— (A. and N.Z.) METAI TRADE 'WORKERS. MORE FIRMS INVOLVED. (Received 1.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The strike of the Federal Metal Trades Unions against the awards has now been in progress for more than a week. In the majority of cases the men have received financial assistance from their unions. Five more engineering firms have liecome involved, following on the dismissal of employees who failed to go to work on Saturday. About one hundred eoachmakers were discharged for the same reason.— (A. and N.Z.) MINERS AND ENGINEERS. NOT AM. IN HARMONY. (Received 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, thi3 day. Minors on the South Coast are not favourable to the present enginedrivers' strike, contending that as the enginedrivers failed to support the miners in the recent dispute the miners should not support them now. It is expected that other South Coast miners will follow the example of the Mount Pleasant men, and return to work.— (A. and N.Z.)